will Stone make another movie?

Rating: 1/10 (7 January 2005)

I was so much looking forward to this movie. My God, what did Oliver Stone do to poor Alexander? Okay, the scene with him as a child taming that steed - good. The few views on ancient Babylon - cool. But so many other things - just unbelievable. First, he got history, plain facts, all wrong. There was no "Pier One" furniture available in 300 B.C. No tables, No chairs, nor black-white-marble eggs. And no machine stitched leather armor. If Alexander was bi, okay. But who wants to see that (okay, except the homosexuals)? Even this was acceptable, but the Great Alexander behaves like a not much respected platoon leader, constantly in quarrels with his troops. This is so not convincing, if you then know he had to rule x100.000 soldiers over so many years. He might have had an Oedipus-complex, but then he was a Tyran. He can not be a democrat, discussing all his decisions on peer level and be scared about his mum at the same time - doesn't work for a psycho nerd like me. What make the film awful is that Colin Farrell. He has these sweet little shy doggy eyes - not the eyes of a victor. And he is crying 70% of all the time! Was Alexander really such a crybaby? And then this narrator thing... was truly wasted Popcorn.