Awful, simply awful not even the music could save this

Rating: 1/10 (14 January 2005)

Where can one begin? This film was, quite simply, the worst film that I have EVER seen, and finally "A.I" goes up in my estimation.
1. The script is simply and absolutely terrible, not one single line inspired anything in me at all, it was stilted, slow, forced, boring and lacking in any enthusiasm what so ever.
2. The acting was disgraceful. Not one single line (from such a bad script) was delivered in anyway that could be described as acting. Farrell voice seemed to strain to even give a battle rousing speech, Jolie with her accent, just turned her performance into a joke, not even Anthony Hopkins could help, though his role was too small to be of any consequence. Must I go on? 3. The battle scenes, rumoured to be some of the best ever, we patchy, far to quick and hardly even able to be seen, due mainly to the speed of the camera trying to give the premise of lots going on and failing utterly to do so. The first battle scene was over far two quickly, three moves of Darius' fingers and he is turning tail and running off in fear. The second major battle was just a huge and catastrophic mess.
4. The attempts at portraying a relationship between Alexander and Haphaiston, which though historically may well be true, here fell flat on their face: nothing looked genuine at all, the hugging the looks, the silences, nothing.
In short, I watched this film until the end merely because I had paid to see it and wanted to think, indeed hope, that it would get better: it didn't.
Awful! Simply awful, if anyone involved in the film get work again, then what a shortage of actors we must have!