Awful and tedious

Rating: 1/10 (16 November 2004)

I saw this movie last night at a screening at the University of Pennsylvania. I had many issues with this movie: long, uninteresting, etc.
It is also visually lacking considering all the places that Alexander travels to: India, Babylon, Egypt. But my main problem with this drag of a movie is the "love story." The entire time Alexander is telling Hephaistion that he deeply loves him and wants to be with him. And then they...hug. Not one kiss shared between these two lovers, God forbid any kind of sex scene. It's just implied with sensual looks and innuendo. What kind of love is that? When Hephaistion died, the entire theater just started laughing. No one could take them seriously when the movie never took their relationship seriously. Is Oliver Stone scared to include any kind of love besides the one between a man and a woman?