Not worth going to see unless you have $4.00 in change, are bored and go to the earliest showing ... or you can pirate it and fast forward through all the crap.

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 2004)

The movie was extremely disappointing. The battle scenes were filmed in a very jumpy and confusing manner once they really got going, so you couldn't even really tell what was going on for most of it. They also played up the whole homosexual thing, which has no historical proof whatsoever -- zero proof. He was Macedonian, so he must have been gay -- stretching it already, but then they throw in a totally unhistorical gay slaveboy for Alexander to want to do -- which they hint at way too much.
The movie is filled with immense homosexual overtones more than anything dealing with him being the greatest general of all time. They also totally skip over the vast majority of the things that made him a great leader. They show a big battle, hint at a few things, and then suddenly Alexander is a lazy, spoiled bisexual that spends most of his time glaring at half-naked men that look like women. The fact that history is ignored for the vast majority of the movie is problematic to say the least, but they also totally rewrite history in the last hour of the movie to make things much more surreal and "Artsy Fartsy" in a sense.
The best part of the movie? The scene where his new wife is totally naked for like five minutes, bouncing all over the place. It may be sophomoric, but she is stacked beyond belief and hot. Next best thing would be the battles, which still weren't anything compared to LotR. It definitely is not worth sitting there for three hours because by the end your a** hurts, the naked scene wasn't long enough, and the battle scenes left you wanting more controlled shots and length.
Pick The Two Towers or The Return of the King, add a 5-minute long bouncing nude scene of Liv Tyler, and you would have a movie infinitely better than Alexander and much more worth your time watching. The biggest disappointment about Alexander is that no one will ever attempt to make another epic movie about his life that is actually based in history. Oliver Stone simply used Alexander as his vehicle for putting forth a political statement about accepting other cultures at home and abroad. He also tried to make Alexander out as some wide-eyed dreamer that wanted to make the world a peaceful and harmonious place. Nice messages, but not when you are taking the world's greatest general, saying you are making a historically accurate movie about his life, and then you do the exact opposite.