It's only "epic" if you define epic as "long"

Rating: 5/10 (1 December 2004)

A friend of mine aptly summarized the movie as "Go East" and, indeed, most of the movie details Alexander and his army marching east, conquering as it goes. If you like military battles, don't go see this. There is only one of any decent size, and it isn't very good. If you like plot, then don't go see this. As far as I can tell Alexander left the plot behind when he began the journey eastward. Too bad he didn't go back for it. The movie was mostly about Alexander's personal life and the meaning of his life. It's controversial (Alexander was homosexual) but that just makes it worse that the furthest they dared to go was show one kiss. He spouts off all movie about how Hephastion (sp?) is his soul mate but then the movie carefully avoids implying that they slept together, as if afraid of alienating its viewers, or maybe getting blacklisted by Christian conservatives, which we now know comprise at least 51% of the US, ha ha...[crying].