Alexander the Not So Great!

Rating: 4/10 (7 April 2009)

What a disappointment! I love some Oliver Stone films, for instance Nixon which is a 10/10 awesome film, but this is very poor. It is worse than the very disappointing Robert Rossen version with Richard Burton.
My first criticism is it is extremely tedious. Second, it is ridiculous as Farrell seems so unable to alter his Irish accent that Stone bizarrely has other actors like Val Kilmer speaking in Irish accents too to make it appear this represents Greek! Insane!
My third major criticism is that Stone indulges is extremely pretentious direction. I am shocked that he thinks this makes it artistic, it only makes it annoying. Camera angles, editing, colour/black and white, symbolism etc are all used noticeably but have no meaning or dramatic purpose. They are not used cleverly just flashily and pointlessly. They fail to lift the boredom and only add to the inadequacy of the film.