Stone should have left this sorry mess on the cutting room floor

Rating: 4/10 (10 June 2016)

Oliver Stone's controversial and deeply flawed 'swords and sandals' epic.
This clumsy 3.5-hour example of historical ignorance and directorial ineptitude is an insult to anyone who has actually studied the life of Alexander the Great.
Contains good battle scenes (albeit inaccurate), some of the worst dialogue ever seen on the big screen, acting so wooden you could build a house from it, and a mixed bag of mediocre green screen work.
The Macedonians all have Irish accents (?) except for Alexander's mother, who seems to be trying for some vague approximation of an obscure East European lilt (??), while the Persians don't even sound remotely Persian (???)
When Alexander is not screwing his wife or an assortment of young men (Stone's Alexander is a heterophobic bisexual; the real Alexander was simply homosexual) he spends most of his time sulking or staring into space for no apparent reason.
I rate Alexander: The Final Cut at 13.32 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as a predictable 4/10 on IMDb.