spoilers of history

Rating: 1/10 (5 December 2004)

The film is not something can represent the condition on that time. In this film we see that Persian Empire showed extremely weak and non-civilized. However Greek culture got lots of things from the Persians and used them to grow up. Acropolis was made years after Persepolis and there were lots of statues in it, which is copied from Persian holy symbols like Lions with wind, horses with one horn and eagles. One thing I have to point here is, the Alexander was not grown up in a comfortable conditions like palace. Otherwise he could not be such a brave killer. As far as I know he was grown up between people that fighting and killing was very common. How you can expect somebody lives all of his life in palace and in battle face to an elephant?! And the reason, which caused Persian Empire defeated against him, was this. On that time Persian people were living in a very nice civilized cities in calm and peace never even could have thought of war. Persian army was made from professional bodies but it was not enough to rise against Alexander, had been having lots of men from west. And rests of people were not trained to be in battle. So what we can expect except Alexander conquer? I found the director that much unknown of history had been used one of the important Persian symbols at back name of Alexander! (This symbol was erased right after some zartoshtian people raise a stink against using it) He did not realize even this symbol belongs to Alexander enemies not something Alexander believed in it! You can find lots of this kind of mistakes in film. The film just wants to show something in name of Alexander not really what it was!