A monument of monumentality - and a freudian nightmare!

Rating: 1/10 (12 January 2005)

To keep things short and simple: this is without the slightest doubt the worst movie I've seen in the past years. It's truly monumental in its failure and when Theodor Adorno said (in his "Theory of Aesthetics") that art of greatest dignity is the one that is "un-identical" and offers no possibility to easily assimilate it - this must be art then! Never in my life have I seen a movie with such horrible acting (alone to speak of Angelina Jolie! the postmodern nightmare incarnated! a model that only lives off it's grotesque visible proportions and thereby functions like a screen for all kind of regressive projections) and such a bad, bad dramaturgy - it leaves you, the viewer, outside the story from beginning to end. or should i mention the anachronistic concept of "myth" and the omnipresent, cheap and dull Freudian symbolism? Or how about homosexuality in the movie which is treated with the same Hollywood-esquire fear as always? It's grotesque! When we see Alexander fugging, he does it with a woman - when he loves men, he treats them like brothers ... Or how about the amateurish cgi? The battle sequences which were about as dramatic and epic as the ones in "The Mummy" (the recent version). Holy hell - the longest 3 hrs of my life! I could go on for hours, but it's really not worth it. A true monument of what Hollywood has become - cheap, dull, lame-ass, below average, recycled, eclectic, normative, idiotic mass-consumption. Vote: below zero!