Appallingly bad! More like a panto than a movie. Angelina Jolie's accent is so bad, she sounds like Dracula

Rating: 2/10 (4 February 2005)

Some of the sets used in this movie were great. I presume they were historically accurate? In any event, some of the scenes thus evoked were exotic and very appealing to the eye. The acting, the script, in fact, the rest of the movie, however, were appalling. 'Alexander' was more like a panto version of 'Braveheart' or 'Henry V' than anything real. There were awkward snippets of action, especially anything involving Alexander and his troops, that appear to have been stolen from 'Braveheart', Shakespeare's 'Henry V', and even 'Gone With the Wind'. One guesses that Oliver Stone might have imagined a much grander, more noble, and truly stirring combination of these elements. As it turned out, unfortunately for us in the audience, nothing fit.
His international cast also seemed to be speaking in a variety of accents--- no one accent was selected by the director for the characters to use. The majority of the cast was British, so English and Scottish accents prevailed, but there were others. Angelina Jolie, for example, sometimes sounded Spanish, sometimes Russian, but mostly like Dracula. That was VERY strange! Overall, a real disappointment. It deserves a 1 out of 10, but given the nice sets, I gave it a 2.