GREAT film-making... period.

Rating: 10/10 (28 November 2004)

A truly great film. Passionate, beautiful, (awe)inspiring, and artistic. The cinematography is breathtaking, the cast is flawless, and a wonderful score by Vangelis accompanies this bold epic. The portrayal of ancient Greece, its customs, politics, beliefs, and pageantry are vivid and accurate. The performances are truthful, rousing and heartbreaking at the same time. Probably one of the year's best, and one of the very best in its genre. But like The Great himself, very complex, very ambitious, ahead of its time, and thus (so far) misunderstood.
Fortune favors the bold... and I favor Oliver Stone's Alexander.
***** out of *****