Oliver twisted

Rating: 1/10 (16 February 2006)

What evil happened to Ollie Stone? I can admit that re-constructing the history of a great leader such as Alexander is not that easy for a modern filmmaker. But Oliver Stone seemed to be very self-confident about this matter...and I trusted him. Well, the movie started with an awful snake exhibition. Plutach tells us that Olympias, mother of Alexander, was fond of snakes as she followed the Orphic doctrines. But this doesn't mean leading us into a zoo. Alexander, as a young prince, is weak and ridiculous. No wonder: he is surrounded by such horrible paintings that we can imagine his nights are obsessed by nightmares. As a matter of fact...he dreams of snakes, always. Please, if you want to give me an historical movie, save me psycho-history...I'd like better seeing Hithcock's PSYCHO instead. If you want to give me an entertaining movie, give me Troy back. Because Alexander is intolerably boring. Keep Hopkins and Plummer silent, please, and give me some interesting images. But the worst of all was the battle against Poros, with all that red...lysergic acid? I would save Jared Leto, who at least is not laughable, despite of his marked make up (why nobody told Stone that Greek homosexuals HATED make-up?). But from a global point of view, the movie is a complete fiasco.