About the accents:

Rating: 10/10 (13 January 2005)

About the accents:
I think you really have to be a genius like Mr. Stone to make the dialogue with so many accents like in Alexander.
To be honest, when I see the trailer when Alexander says: "Conquer your fear, and I promise you will conquer death," I said to myself, Oh--- no, yet again another so-called historical epic and how can I be convinced to see a King/Hero of 2300 years ago to encourage his soldiers in modern English. (Didn't notice the Irish English yet.) But yet you can't let the movie to be played in ancient Greek or other period languages. (It has been already floppy enough, what do you expect it will do in a language almost every people need to read the sub-titles!!??)
Here comes the genius way of Mr. Stone of handling the situation: - He let people conduct the dialogue in different accents compared to the Standard English as the characters would have been actually speaking Greek (or other languages) according to their origin compared with classic ancient Greek.
The Macedonians weren't at the center of Greek civilization. In this way, don't you think it is really clever to hear them speaking English with an Irish accent? (Compared Ireland to England/America as Macedonia to Spartan/Athens.) What a thoughtful approach!!! Audience more careful would have noticed also that the Athenians in the movie speak with quite an American accent and other soldiers groups have their comparable accents, too. The Persians are none English native speakers. Aristotle speaks standard English and Olympus' strange accents is just magnificent to emphasize she was considered "Barbarian" by Philipus. Anyway, by hearing these different accents, one realizes how multi-nation Alexander's empire was.
The one who criticizes the accents fails to see the true meaning of this revolutionary approach of film dialogue.
The one who finds it difficult to catch up please be patient and realize there are more than just Americans and English who speaks English. And we shall always be respectful to other people's accent by trying to understand it instead of rejecting it.
The one who doesn't like it please take it this way: Imagine the movie was originally made in ancient Greece and was dubbed into English for us to understand it better. In order to keep the authenticity of the dialogue and considering character's origin, Mr. Stone did us a favour by adapting them with different accents.