"Alexander" bad

Rating: Null/10 (23 November 2004)

I can't express how much I disliked and was bored by "Alexander." At the private screening to which I was invited, purses were checked for possible video cameras, etc. I reached inside my purse for my chapstick and someone hovered over me like a Soviet Union inquisitor. Well, they shouldn't have bothered. In my opinion, "Alexander" is an Oliver Stone vanity project with actors in costumes making didactic speeches and exerting accents--"acting, acting, acting." I have an honors UCLA degree in Classical Civ and learned that back in Alexander's time men preferred each other's sexual company and considered women for procreation. Nevertheless, I was offended by the unnecessarily affected performances and all that silly posturing. I had a secret crush on Colin and I was crushed. Angelina is in danger of becoming a cliché. Anthony Hopkins was a bizarre touch. Geez! I give it a zero.