Where's the story

Rating: 4/10 (17 December 2004)

For starters, Oliver Stone is a great director whether or not he makes a good or bad movie. In my opinion, Alexander is not one of the top movies that he will be remembered for. Much like Any Given Sunday, Alexander is a big movie with a big cast and budget. While Any Given Sunday has a great story with a beginning, a middle, and an end, Alexander has a story without a story. The movie spent so much time worrying about telling the story of Alexander that they forgot to tell the story. I will admit, I had to walk out of the cinema after the first 2 hours of the movie. Finding out that there was another hour to go, I lost all hope. By the two hour mark, they were still trying to answer the WHY and the HOW in Alexander's life. Since the Passion of the Christ, I think Hollywood is without a reason why they can not produce a quality product on a historical event at a fraction of the cost. Alexander's budget was 3 times of the Passion, and an hour longer. The end result was a giant blockbuster for one, and a good attempt by another.