It is the best film by Oliver Stone

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2004)

I don't like Oliver Stone at all and I have always considered him to be an absolutely talentless director. I've seen many of his films and liked none of them. I've read so many bad comments on "Alexander" that I went to cinema to laugh (I've read that this film is only to laugh at) and to admire beautiful horse Bucefal. In spite of such prejudice I didn't find "Alexander" so ridiculous as it was described, on the contrary, I think it is MUCH better then "Troy", "Lord of the Rings" or other "battle films" and it is much better than other Oliver Stone films. Maybe because vulgarity, silly habit to moralize, primitiveness and some other Oliver Stone's bad habits don't look so striking in this genre.
I think that this FILM IS VERY PACIFIST: Alexander was a very unfortunate and unhappy person who had cruel parents and lived in cruel time and because of his upbringing he became neurasthenic and mentally unstable: he wanted to be generous and couldn't control his anger at the same time, he wanted to have open soul and be equal to his battle friends and at the same time he considered himself a deity. As far as I understood the author of this film, Alexander couldn't find peace in himself and that's why he was so militant and lonely. Besides, his strange ideas and neurasthenic behavior caused SO MANY DEATHS! That's why, I think, Ptolemy said at the end of the film that such people like Alexander are better die young before they kill all life around. I agree with the pacifist ideas!
And I also would like to say several words about how the film is done--I mean several words in defence. "Alexander" has many failings (nonsenses of different kinds), but these failings are not new for Oliver Stone, so I don't understand why they can be forgiven in his other films and cannot be forgiven in this one. I've read many comments where Oliver Stone was accused in having done unintelligible battle scenes but I would like to remind these critics that Oliver Stone had been unfortuned to take part in REAL battles himself in Vietnam and so he probably knows better how does it look in reality. I would also like to say that there are some beautiful scenes in "Alexander" (that would maybe considered quite vulgar in an "independent film" but are absolutely in their place in a mainstream film, look here very beautiful and highly artistic). Actors play their parts very well (something new for an Oliver Stone film). The idea about accents was very strange, I think, but I didn't "suffer" it---I've seen the film dubbed into Russian.
I think it was VERY hard to make a film on this topic and of such scale and Oliver Stone did it PERFECTLY AS FOR A FILM OF THIS GENRE!
Oliver Stone was not good as an "independent" director but is VERY GOOD, EXCELLENT as a mainstream director. I hate all his films but this time I wish him many Oscars, money and I vote 10 from 10!