Alexander Great, Movie Stink

Rating: 4/10 (27 September 2005)

This film was poorly written and directed. I was bored several times by overly long dialog leading to absolutely nothing. The battle scenes, called epic by some, are just plain too dang long. If epic means too long, then they are indeed epic. I felt that his mother had far too many scenes after he became grown and had taken off on his conquests. She wasn't adding anything necessary to the film in those scenes, so why keep them? There was definitely bisexuality in Alexander's relationships and it wasn't skipped over at all. Historically it seems to have been fairly accurate, and Alexander's story is a true classic. However, inept adaptation to the big screen along with uncharacteristically poor direction from Oliver Stone, lead to a film that is not only disappointing, but downright poor. Boring, boring, boring. I'm afraid this film just doesn't live up to all of it's hype.