This was worse than Troy and Battlefield Earth combined

Rating: Null/10 (5 December 2004)

This movie was sheer mental retardation, to the 25th power. It had nothing to do with Alexander the Great. It was about a certain director's typical tom-foolery and intense interest (if not lust) for homosexuality. Can someone answer why in every movie Stone makes there's are scenes where the characters are having orgies doing drugs and performing anal sex? It happened in Midnight Express, JFK, and Alexander. The movie is sheer propaganda. It says nothing of Alexander's exploits, makes up events that never happened (about 75% of the movie at least), omits crucial events to the very essence of the man (eg the Gordian knot, the siege of Babylon, the unification of Greece and Persia through marriage, etc) and makes the young king who conquered the known world out to be a whiney, sniveling, self hating, low self esteem cry baby who blames everything that goes wrong on his mother (Freudian bullcrap).If you edit the film so that Alexander's whiney and homosexual scenes are omitted, you'll have about 4 minutes of film at best (including credits). In the end this movie is nothing but sheer nonsense. There is no point to the movie. It lacks action, it lacks meaning, it lacks truth, it lacks plot, it lacks purpose. Watch it and you'll regret it. You'll hate yourself because that is 3 hours of your life you will never get back.