A film as bad as its accents

Rating: 3/10 (22 April 2005)

Apart from the very good and gory battle scenes, Alexander bored me senseless. Trying to keep up with Hopkins's ramblings which apparently kept you up to date with the story was too much for me. Why did most of the characters have Irish accents? Presumably because Colin Farrell couldn't do any other accent. Why did Alexander have an Irish accent while his mother sounded eastern European? Perhaps because Angelina Jolie couldn't do an Irish accent. Why did we only see two battles when Alexander fought in over 50? Maybe it was deemed more interesting to focus on half-hearted homosexuality and yawnsome story-telling. All in all it was a tedious three hours that I can't believe I sat through.