bad news

Rating: 1/10 (24 November 2004)

This movie was bad history and bad acting and was almost rotten enough to be entertaining, but didn't quite cross that line. That line would have been welcome, because this thing hovered on pathetic. I don't quite understand the myriad of accents and there should have been some consistency there--quite irritating. Alexander came off as a bit of a fop and whether true or not, not a very appealing character and played awfully badly by Farrell, who I'm still trying to grasp the appeal of as he looks like he smells to high heaven. If you like epics, you'll be sorely disappointed here unless you require bad acting in your epics and then, of course, you're sure to be delighted!