Biggest mis-casting of a major role in movie history.

Rating: 2/10 (3 January 2012)

For the budget and amount of money that must have been spent on this film, it was ruined for me by some horrendous mis-casting.
Who thought that Colin Farrell who must weigh about 9 stone wet through, looks like a warrior. He is totally unbelievable as the commander of men and armies and seems to spend the whole film with terrified looking expressions on his face leading seemingly aimless charges from one part of the battlefield to another.
The battle of Gaugamela seems to have been exaggerated beyond anything any Greek Historian could come up with, history now shows that the numbers were a little more equal than the Greek version, and given that the Parthians and Sassanid's subsequently saw off 6 Roman invasions I tend to believe the revised version, that Alexander after defeating a minor border kingdom was forced to retreat from India, when an army nearly ten times the size of his own was on its way.
Where the film Troy for example delivers in both acting and plot, this film is such a disappointment on so many level. The only highlights were the narration and the use of a birds eye battle view camera shots which I thought was inventive.
Farrel wearing uniforms and armour particularly helmets that looked several sizes too big for him, made poor Alexander quite comical at times I'm afraid.
Whowever cast this movie should be sacked, next time do not cast an actor who looks like Mr Puniverse, and then allow him to look terrified throughout the whole movie as someone who is supposed to be a man who other men would follow to the ends of the earth.