A beautiful portrait from ancient time which deserves your attention

Rating: 10/10 (26 April 2008)

I liked this movie, a true masterpiece, I feel many people who saw it reacted to the movie the way people at Alexander reacted to his ideas, they just didn't get it, he was a man of visions, this movie is a visionary movie in a industry spawning typical stereotypical action heroes(Brad Pitts Achilles in Troy, Gerard Butlers Leonidas in the movie 300)Those faceless "Heman" characters when they eventually get deep they just get cheesy. What the auidiens get here is a deep but still "visionary" piece of art in the action scenes, the battle scenes against The Babelonians in the desert made me speechless, we see a flyover that is unique for this movie, still people complained, maybe they missed it when they concentrate to much in eating popcorn and candies while the movie go on, and there is also the fight in India when Alaxander(Xander we call him in Arabic countries)make a go for it against a armored elefant you feel the scene, not like in movies like LOTR Return of the King, where a bunch of silly confused video game elephants run around and roll on the ground.
The quest for the world is like the red line of the movie, he wants to be legend and to do something to the world, something good, he wants to learn preserve admire, unfortunately most of his men doesn't follow, neither do the audience, so that leaves this movie a master piece but only for those that understand art and the BIG PICTURE. It makes people wanna see more deep historical movies, read more books read more history. I guess this film will find more and more people in time, its a mystery like the legend himself, Alexander the Great, he was indeed different, if only our leaders today had his ideas or understandings and respect for culture and preservation of history and national treasures, this Directors cut versions will give the people who missed it a chance to truly see it for what it is and the ones who saw it a new look at it and see it deeper.