Not Oliver Stones best

Rating: 2/10 (8 September 2005)

This film could not keep my attention. It seemed to try to be a great Shakespeare epic in the writing of the dialog. I was bored to know end every time someone opened their mouths.
Not to mention the poor choice of Jolie as Alexander's mother, her make up looked more like something from a Demille Egyptian epic, plus she just doesn't portray a Greek woman from her accent to her looks. Plus when did she have Alexander when she was like 5 years old, they could have aged her at the very least.
When Alexander started into one of his speeches around his troops I would have taken my sword and slayed him on the spot even if would have ended my own life, just to shut him up. The dialog stank and it's delivery was poorly done and annoying.
Stone is historically known to portray history to express his own political views is still in full force in this movie. ref. JFK theories, and the nazi flag on a American APC in Platoon at the end. He is noted for this in his films. So the bisexual issues where just his style to portray for good or bad. He has Alexander reacting to the death of his male lover with more emotion than his own wife. So he pushes the bi to the gay side more in the image of Alexander, maybe for shock value. But then again if I used this film as a representation of the Greek way of family back then seems that men where gay and only had wives to have children to produce heirs, treating women more as babymills and property. But who knows maybe it was that way back then.
I watched the Directors cut maybe the minutes that where tossed on the cutting room floor are the ones I needed to bring the whole story together.
In entertainment value I would rather be entertained by Richard Burton in Alexander the Great than this modern reproduction. This version had better acting, better script and didn't need the nudity or the sexuality issue brought up. But this is me. However if your a Shakesphere fan you might find this film entertaining, because your the one who can follow it.