Awful...just awful

Rating: 3/10 (2 August 2005)

Wow. I watched the director's cut this weekend and was blown away at just how bad this movie is. I'm really surprised by the number of glowing reviews here at the IMDb. It had so many problems - poorly developed characters (pretty much all the side characters), bad dialogue, pointless jumps in timeline (sometimes this can be extremely effective, obviously, but in Alexander it served no purpose), lack of focus, and directorial overindulgence. I've read some of the threads comparing the director's cut with the theatrical release, and it seems that maybe some of the problems I had with the film, particularly on the character development front, are due to changes made for this cut. I hope that's the case. This film is convoluted, historically inaccurate, and more importantly, boring and self indulgent.