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.
A very epic film with an all-star cast,great battle scenes and amazing scenery and locations. The storytelling jumped back and forth a little too much but still this film is a historical film that shows the real history of one of the most biggest conqueror.
Note: Very long film, so be ready if you are watching it.
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...
Mother's like Queen Olympias are sickening.
Alexander: “It’s a high ransom she charges for nine months lodging in the room.”
Watch the Ultimate Cut!!! It's so much better than the theatrical!
Not the best movie but it‘s also not that bad. My favorite part is definitely Angelina Jolie as Queen Olympias. She may be a bit too young for the role but her performance in this historical epic is so captivating.
Great battle scenes, and also great scenery, even though the storytelling might be a little complicated to follow with all the timelapses of Alexander's childhood and his reign and campaings.
PD: WHY ARE WE ALL YELLING ABOUT!!!!!
Watched the Ultimate cut on Netflix and it took me 3 days to finish in spurts. I was not so keen on Colin Farrell's acting but it eventually held up enough to not destroy the film. Val Kilmer and Angelina Jolie gave the best performances while a film can do no wrong with Anthony Hopkins narrating. I loved how Stone constantly reminded us of myth v. truth and that Alexander's drive was to conquer more land than his Father and he invariably became greater than his hero Achilles doing so. The final battle scene was so intense and the choice of a red filter when Alexander falls off his horse was cinematic beauty.
This is a great film worth a re-watch or two but it isn't as good as Gladiator.
Review by Hansen88BlockedParent2018-02-04T12:18:00Z
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.