As Great As His Name (DVD)

Rating: 7/10 (6 August 2007)

Trailers don't make movies: how many times good trailers are related to bad movies or, as this one, bad trailers concern excellent movies: As I watched the trailer, I got a feeling of "Birdcage" in Ancient Greece. But it is indeed the 1st historic, epic & spiritual movie I have seen for a long time !
It is a condensed biography of King Alexander, who conquers at an early age from Macedonia to India! So, when you know that his trip passed by Babylon, that is to say that the West conquered then the future Irak, you got new perspectives for this past world and our actual one as well!
Next, the locations are really culturally alike between Greece, Persia, India & artistically beautiful. This movie beats here several blockbusters!
At last, the character is himself an outstanding one: his drive for the other (-land, people, relationships,) can be an inspiration! But, I watched the DVD with the director, Oliver Stone's commentary: He delivers such brilliant speeches about history, philosophy, film-making than it is more a voice-over for the movie than an casual commentary. The only minor flaw would be that if his dialog are so needful, the movie is somewhere incomplete!
In conclusion, as this experience was truly remarkable, maybe I should see "World Trade Center" because I think the trailer is worst !