Colin Farrell has less charisma than Woody Allen

Rating: Null/10 (25 November 2004)

Colin weeps across 3 continents. Not for an instant does one get the idea of the brilliance and bold confidence the real Alexander must have had. The battle scenes start well and then turn into MTV-style shaky colors confusing what is happening. There is not a good performance in the film. Philip, Alexander's father, was a brilliant general and king who built up Macedonia to a world power...but the movie shows him as a full time drunk. But wherever we go and whatever he does, Alexander finds occasion to...not exult in his victories, not glory in battle...but weep, and weep some more, and then some more. This is so boring...Troy was a masterpiece compared to this drivel and the actors in that film, like Brad Pitt or not, were excellent in their roles. And oh for a Peter O'Toole as Lawrence or Heston as El Cid or Gibson as Braveheart. Picture any of them weeping throughout their conquests and you get the idea of how horribly hilariously bad this piece of garbage was. (And, except for Natural Born Killers, I normally like Oliver Stone movies.)