Had potential, but ultimately a big disappointment

Rating: 5/10 (30 April 2005)

When a film has Oliver Stone's name attached to it is released, you think of Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the 4th of July, JFK, all great films. So considering the hype that preceded Alexander you'd expect it to be a great epic film in the same category as Braveheart, or Gladiator. Unfortunately despite the strong cast, they ended up giving poor performances, seeming wooden and unnatural (with 2 exceptions). I'm no big Colin Farrel fan, but I must say his performance was the one thing that kept me going through this very long (too long) film. As well as Val Kilmer in the first quarter of the film (one of his best performances).
The big disappointments are from Angelina Jolie who seemed to be trying too hard to achieve a character which was flawed to begin with. The dialogue coming from her seemed like something from a fantasy novel, not a historical epic. And what was with that phony accent?
Anthony Hopkins must have given one of the most boring performances of his career. I must say I was on the verge of falling asleep at the end of the film wondering when he would just shut up(Poor Anthony how did he get himself mixed up in this debacle).
Jared Leto's character was just pathetic, he seemed to have no backbone at all, its no wonder he didn't die in the first battle in the film. Most of the film just featured him standing around with a smirk on his face and he hardly had any dialogue. His death scene was horrendous.
Overall at the end of this drawn out film I felt as if I had wasted my time and money. Don't waste yours.