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Rating: Null/10 (28 November 2004)

I liked this movie. Unlike Troy it gave a pretty fair picture of the time and the myths. People seem to complain about the "gay" stuff, but I really don't see why!!?? this was in a time when the word gay did not exist. As I understand it, the only person that we know "for sure" (nothing is ever "sure" in history) was Alexanders lover, was his slave Bagoas (though we might assume the women he married were his lovers as well)... Hephaistion is assumed to be so (or so I've read) because they prayed to Achilles and Patroclus, who people (at this time)belived were lovers. That is it. He might have loved both men and women, and it is shown (at least a little bit) in the movie. Why is it such a big deal? What is the problem???
Anyway, The battles were okay (exept for the music) I liked that the warriors actually got scared, like real people do. I thought it was going to be more of a "hero" thing, romantic and noble - and it was, a little bit - but it still felt more "realistic" than most movies like this. Olympias accent bothered me a bit. And a few other things... but I liked it. More true to history than a lot of other movies I've seen.