Oh, please

Rating: 3/10 (16 September 2005)

Oh, dear. I thought Troy was pretty bad, although enjoyable, but this swords and sandals epic manages to be bad without being enjoyable. The fault is mostly in the screenplay which handles flashbacks and flash-forwards in a rather ham-fisted fashion, and contains some of the most risible dialogue I've heard since the 'love scene' in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. The actors all do their best, but they're not really given much to work with.
The one redeeming feature is that they were brave enough to portray Alexander's same-sex relationship, rather than doing a Troy and pretending that the pair are cousins or friends. But even this is rather clunky and awkward.