action at its slowest

Rating: 3/10 (17 August 2005)

The DVD copy I watched had a commentary from director Stone and it perhaps explained the slow pace of such a potentially exciting film. He talks at length of the collaboration with European producers and the 1950s "Toga and Sandals" feel comes through really strongly. The most telling comment was that we know nothing of the man Alexander other than some comments put down three hundred years after he died. So this movie is a characterisation based on a guess.
Stone seems to let his actors ramble on and use whatever dialect they like to give them authenticity. Angelina Jolie's mock Greek-accented English is a failure and detracts from her performance.
I look forward to this story being told by a better director and acted by better actors with some hint of historical accuracy. A great opportunity lost.