Historic Flop

Rating: 3/10 (22 January 2005)

As a student of classical studies at university, i have studied Alexander the Great and in contrast to the user comment by Sturdy ram anyone who has studied the topic in any detail knows that as well as skipping many of the more important aspects of Alexander's life it deviates from the truth on many occasions. The heavy fixation on the bisexual aspects of Alexander's personality are heavily over exploited and draw attention away from the great things rather then his sexual preference. Maybe he should have taken a leaf out of Homer's the Illiad's depiction of Achillies' homosexuality.
To the films credit there were strong acting performances from Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins who pretty much carry the film with strong emotive performances. Colin Farrell's Portrayal severely lacking but did in later stages of the film show glimmers of hope. The lack of any accents by the entire male cast was pathetic especially Rory Mcann as Crateros who's Scottish accent ruined a markable Performance.
If this film did win any Oscars for anything other then cinematography then the academy has truly lost its reputation.
This new fad of Classical ancient films (Troy) are truly lacking in all aspects of film making and without modern special effects wouldn't even make the box office, just proving that just because a movie costs several hundred million dollars to make doesn't make it worth watching and the only people i would recommend it to would be those who liked such brilliant historical films as Pearl Harbour and Troy.