hyped garbage

Highly Overrated But Still Good

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

After not getting this movie when I watched it in the theater in 2004, this has become my favorite movie. The script is end to end perfect without s single flaw. All the actors are great especially Jared Leto as his one loyal friend and Val Kilmer as his father. The movie is exquisite, hard-edged, romantic, poetic. I can't remember another movie like it. Much better than Lawrence of Arabia. This was the last epic I think made with no, or almost no CGI. It's sweeping and feels more deeply rooted because it wasn't filmed in front of a green screen.Bravo Oliver Stone! You made my favorite movie. Your best, most authentic film since "Midnight Express".

Alexander truly was great, and this movie truly was horrible. It had a few moments that were bearable. When Alexander was preparing for the great battle with Darius, and his eagle was flying above, and he addressed his troops similar to how Mel Gibson did, as in Braveheart, it was hard not to be interested in the outcome, and the size of the spectacle to come.If the rest of the movie had 1/10th as much going on for it, it may have been a success. But it wasn't to be. Instead Mr. Stone opted to go the route of vices, and emotion. He just couldn't 'imply' that the great Alexander was a homosexual, he had to explicitly 'show him' making out with his extremely gay boy lover that he plucked from his Harem in Babylon on more than one occasion. Of course, if you were to believe all what you see, the entire Macedonian empire were bisexual rapists. Even if that were partially true, I think Alexander and his crew deserved the focus of his conquests be remembered and observed on what really mattered, and not to smother it with Stone reality. Oliver Stone can't see past his nose, and he just had to make this potential history lesson, and possibly great movie, with his usual drenching of overdoing everything, and focusing on his own miserable obsessions of humanity. His Alexander was a mama's boy, a cry baby, and had a 'serious daddy issue' as well. Perhaps Stone was writing about himself, because it's certainly not the Alexander the Great I read about in school.The story of Alexander...the true story...we will never know, because the facts written by those closest to him were destroyed in the great fire of Alexandra. So, we are left with today's historian's best guesses, and Oliver Stones worst movie EVER.If you MUST watch it, have a good stiff drink handy, or a bottle of Valium. Even then, I'm betting you turn it off before it's over. I tried to watch the Blu-ray on my giant HD screen, 4 times, before I actually got through it. Some of the worst directing in cinema history, and some great performances ruined because of it. If I could have rated it here 'below' a 1, I would have.

This film is truly terrible, in almost every respect.It does highlight a major fault with the IMDb rating system, in that one star is far too generous. If I could give it zero stars, I would. If I could bill those behind this film for my time wasted, I would.The sum contribution of all the people involved in the making of this film, however, cannot be dismissed quite so easily. They have found a cure for insomnia orders of magnitude better than temazepam. A warning though - I didn't get through a lot this film, and it may be possible to overdose and cause severe damage to your neural functions.Overall, best avoided.

This Is An Epic Movie About Alexander The Great ... Imagine By The Age Of 22 Having Conquered 90% Of The Known World ... All In A Quest To Bring Freedom To The World ... Colin Is Brilliant As Alexander Bring Emotional Life To A Legend Could Not Have Been Easy ... Angelina Is Amazing As His Nurturing Mother Olympias, Whose Love For Her Son Was So Blinding She Would Have Torn Down The Heavens Themselves To Assure His Glory ... Anthony Hopkins Narrates The Story As Ptolemy (Greek Scholar) ... The Scenery Is Amazing As We Travel With Alexander Across Much Of The World ... Oliver Stone (Of Course, Who Else?) Manages To Direct The Movie With His Trade Mark Ability To Make Sure That All Points Of View Are Covered Without Confusing The Story ... Absolutely A Wonderful Depiction Of A Man Who Was Bigger Than The Legend