Worst movie ever.

Rating: 1/10 (7 June 2005)

Why, Oliver Stone, why? This movie made me actually consider never watching another period piece ever again. This is also the first movie to ever make me seriously consider getting up and leaving the theater. Oliver Stone even said this movie was schlock. He wanted to do it because the story is one of the greatest ever told. However, that being said, a lot of people want their hands on it. Oliver Stone (Natural Born Killers, Any Given Sunday, Platoon) was not allowed to make the movie he wanted. I know he produced it, and co-wrote it, but it must have been the execs that screwed him over here. Casting choices are unbelievably stupid. And the way the story has been edited does not fit together sensically. Okay, so Rosario Dawson and Anjelina Jolie are hot... but why do they sound like Nosferatu?? I won't go off on Colin Farrell, but honestly he cannot stop that accent! He's Irish... NO, he's American, NO... he's SOMETHING THAT ISN'T MEDITERRANEAN! Now, how was this Irish kid born from transylvanian Jolie and American Val Kilmer. By the way I think Val Kilmer's performance was pretty good,keeping in mind that NO ONE'S accent made sense. And I know there are so many aspects to this story, you could make a ten hour movie,but they should have picked one part and told it. I just don't understand why at the END of the movie, they would choose to go back and show Blondie's coronation. Through the whole movie, I'm wondering why in God's name is Alexander king already? Where's his father? At least they cleared that up, but they spent about 5 minutes on it. It's a crucial turning point to the story, don't you think? Out of a 3 hour movie, it's amazing to me how much they downplayed actual historical events and filled up all that space with painful unneeded schlock. And that's why I'm going to stick to books or comics when there is a great story at risk of being butchered by terrible casting, editing, acting and really anything else that can go wrong with a movie. Example? Alexander. The worst movie I have ever seen and ever expect to see.