Cut in pieces, but still too long...

Rating: 5/10 (7 December 2004)

I don't like this movie at all. The only good thing about it is Colin Farrell that plays the role as Alexander the great. A homosexual child, who grow up with only his mothers love, a bit too much mothers love perhaps. His father is eventually murdered, and he becomes the king of Greece and the story continues..
I really like the acting from Colin Farrell, but that is also the only thing I like. The movie does not feel realistic. They somehow picked the wrong actors to the wrong places. Why is Angelina Jolie playing the mother Olympia? Anthony Hopkins only look old, and got no inspiration.
The movie is very long, and it feels like they knew that, so they cut it down and removed parts of it to make it shorter. This however makes the movie feel incomplete, with missing fragments. But still the movie feels too long.
I don't understand why they couldn't make this movie better. Troy for example was given a lot more enthusiasm it feels.
5/10 with a bit of a bad taste for a epic story that could have been good, but ended in a mess.