Shame on you Oliver Stone

Rating: 1/10 (20 January 2005)

I was long awaiting the epic that was and is Alexander, what should have been one of the best movies of the year, turned out to be an absolute shocker! What was Oliver Stone thinking with this overblown, mindless rubbish. From the start it was confusing to say the least. After the1 20minutes i was praying for it to be over. The story kept chopping and changing, if you didn't have a basic understanding of the historical facts you would have been sitting there wondering what the heck you were watching. The worst scenes were Alexander and his wifes wedding night. The embarrassing bare breasted brawl and the two of them snarling and growling like two rabid dogs on heat had a cringe factor of 10. The action scenes were pretty good in some areas (the elephants were great), but then Stone has to ruin it with some freaky red lense sequence. In short, the acting was wooden, the script mediocre(and thats being generous), and what is with the majority of the cast in and Irish and Scottish accent (with the exception of Jolie who had some kind of freaky hybrid Russian, Arab, thing going on. Shame on you Oliver Stone, shame, shame, shame.