There's no precristian man more glorious than Alexander. His relationship with the father, the mother, with his comrades and friend who followed him in every mad mission, the desire of knowledge, the respect for every single man and woman (it doesn't matter if greek, macedon, egyptian, persian or else), the fascination for the unknown, the call for be more than a man and to be something similar to gods, the complexity in earn and keep every single reign he ruled (included the Macedon kingdom), the conscious idea they were going to make something incredible (so he call historians, poets, artists in order to eternalize and promote what happened), the relationship with Aristotle (no comment for the one in the movie...)... You could make a great movie with not all of this, but at least SOME. At the end you've got only one aspect well focused: the relationship with Hephaistion. You cannot lie, so, yes, there was probably a homosexual relationship between them... By the end, the idea the movie give you is about a (maybe) great commander [in 38' minutes you are thrown from the childhood to Gaugamela... wow), a idealist with some not-so-clear ideas, a man become mad about the power and [in case you didn't understand in the previous fourty-five / fourty-six scenes] a man who had a homosexual partneship with his best friend. It wasn't easy to reduce Alexander the Great to this.

There should be more movies based on history. The woman reminds me of pictures I have seen taken in the shilabalika temple. Yep, no doubt about it he was...

Roger Ebert called Alexander and Troy a tie for worst movie of its year. No, this is far worse than Troy. He was right though Gladiator was better. Which he hated for no good reason. Gladiator wasn’t historically accurate but it didn’t really have to be. It’s this mess that is a bio-pic.

Oliver Stone portrays an Alexander who is overwhelmed by glory.

Was not worth the 3 hours and 30 minutes at all. Casting was a hit for small roles, but a miss for big ones, especially Colin. I think all together I probably only enjoyed about 30 mins of this. The production was great, the costumes, cgi, locations, and afew fights. The directing was illegal, though. I hated the slow motion, stiff camera filters, and angles. Oh, and the score that completely eats itself clean to the bone. Gargantuan waste. I've already forgotten half of what Alexander might've done because of the time changes. Acting, script, and representation actively made me mad.