Rubbish

Rating: Null/10 (25 November 2004)

Let me first start by saying that visually the film was superb and utterly breathtaking. However, Oliver Stone should have put a bit more effort into his casting of the film. Rosario Dawson, although gorgeous, cannot act worth beans. The accents alone were horrendous. Some had Irish accents and others like Dawson's and Jolie's were hard to place. Word of the wise the movie should flow the audience shouldn't be able to detect the 21st century in the film. The length of the film could have and should have been trimmed down immensely. There were these scenes that were needlessly drawn out and bored the audience to pieces. Many of the lines and gestures used were almost humorous, such as the innuendo between Hephaistion and Alexander. And I believe it was the line "except Hephaistion's thighs" brought the film to a pitiful new low. Yes Alexander was obviously bisexual but to have playful flirting document their life-long affair is ridiculous. I have never in all my life seen so many people walk out of a film. I believe that this movie, just like Troy, had too much Hollywood fever surrounding it and that is just box- office suicide. The movie was almost too dramatized and too over the top. The history alone should have been enough to keep this movie afloat. If this was Colin Farrell's attempt to dig himself out of his B-move slump he has sadly failed.