disappointingly average

Rating: 5/10 (30 July 2005)

I have a great deal of respect for Oliver Stone but this movie seems to lack focus for me. Being the leader of the world at the time, he seems to not demonstrate his immense personal strength except in one scene where he addresses the troops before a battle ( and the obligatory scene with breaking the wild stallion as a boy) it is inferred that it is by birth he is king which is why the Macedonians follow him to the end of the earth although they tire of that as well, when in fact he could not have achieved this greatness without the strength inherent in few men. Colin Farrel did impress me with his performance and Angelina Jolie was stoic and contrived. I don't desire to add this to my collection.