More awful Oliver Stone drivel.

Rating: 1/10 (20 March 2010)

Really, Oliver Stone is the pits when it comes to a complete lack of respect for evidence in film-making, whether it's this drivel or JFK conspiracy theory nonsense. Okay, you need to make a film that'll put bums on seats, but lots of good directors do that without completely rewriting history. You don't need to fictionalise JFK or Alexander the Great: if you can't make their lives interesting give up! Oh, and for the record, none of the five basic historians of Alexander's life and conquests even address the issue of Aleander's sexuality. To tell the story of the greatest empire builder of ancient times in terms of an entirely invented sex life might just be overlooking some slightly more fascinating parts of his story!