GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Sammy-Jo Cervantes There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

tmattson75 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".

loquepicaelgallo It's now almost 14 years ago since its release but while checking something else I stumbled on the only review the IMDB page shows on the main page which gives the flick 10 stars!!?? I'm not going to review or make comments on this ... movie?, (yes, I managed not to puke in the movie theater when I saw it) 'cause it's not worthy but if you're in the mood for a good laugh, here are some of the headlines that made me laugh too and I definitely concur with them. And believe me, 90% of them think this garbage masterpiece definitely sucks. Please let me know if I'm infringing any copyright.The Queen Who Wanted To Be KingYou've got to be kidding me...Oh, Oliver, where did you go wrong?An Insult to the ManHalf my brain died and can't read anymore.Alexander was Great, but this movie wasn'tI want the three hours of my life back please.Even Stone knew it was badI prayed for the end!Oliver Stone should be imprisoned for creating this film...This should not be considered film.Recommended, for a very limited audienceTroy was disappointing, this was infuriating.I didn't know the Greeks were all IrishDo you know who was Alexander, cause Stone wasn't sure?The film that will never end.I want to see the reviewers that actually liked this movieMovies can't get much worse than this film - unless they decide to make an Alexander II.Molasses-drenched and truly annoyingCrap-tacular FlambeThis movie will make Alexander turn over in his grave!Recommend this movie - to someone you hateWhen did Mel Brooks change his name to Oliver Stone?Eh...not good at allTalk talk talkOliver Stone has finally "lost it..."New way to Spell AwfulPoisoning the LegendAnd you thought Hollywood quit making epic clunkersSave Your DinarsOK, are we talking about Alexander the Great here or a gigolo philosopher?And those are not all. Now you have an idea of what was this movie?

Filipe Neto As a historian, I believe that Alexander III of Macedonia (whom we know as Alexander the Great) was so essential for the course of human history that he achieved, by his own merit, a permanent place in the list of ten or fifteen most decisive personalities always. A very exclusive list of personalities who, for good or bad reasons, have forever changed our world's history. Personalities like Jesus Christ, Julius Caesar, Gengis Khan, Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler, Cleopatra, Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Galileo Galilei, Darwin, Napoleon, George Washington or Picasso... heroes or villains in an always subjective list, but it's impossible to think what the world would look like without them, isn't it? So it is with Alexander. But I'm not here to talk about this historical personality, just the movie. An intense epic that seeks to be faithful to the known facts of the life of this conquering, narcissistic, megalomaniac, homosexual and deeply complex king. This story begins at the Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC) and follows, recounting childhood, youth and ascension to the throne through flashbacks.Overall, I found the film interesting and enjoyable, even though it wasn't good. The script is historically accurate, at least in general. Of course there are exaggerated or buzzing scenes for dramatic purposes. The problem is that, even so, its a vague script and doesn't justify three and a half hours lenght. It would have been better if the post-production and editing work had cut about forty-five minutes. Another problem I felt was excessive grandeur. I know it's an epic movie, but it's possible to be epic without being presumptuous and this movie was a show of self-importance. This can be seen in the actors' theatrical and affected manners, a bunch of peacocks displaying their feathers all the time. This heroic spirit impregnated also Vangelis soundtrack, probably one of the worst he already made. I still felt difficulties with all those flashbacks. A narrative so loaded with advances and retreats seems more like a tango. They are useful, no one doubts, but sometimes it took a long time for me to realize that I was watching a flashback, and it makes everything more tiresome and confusing.The film is loaded with great actors but none of them shone for lack of a competent script and director. Colin Farrell was boringly heroic and should have kept his hair dark because the real Alexander would NEVER have been blonde. The way this actor behaved was erratic and dialogues were theatrical and full of pompous sentences. Angelina Jolie is a casting error, she was too young for the character and seemed constantly younger than her own son. Val Kilmer was OK as Phillip, with a generous dose of make-up for making him older and scarred. Anthony Hopkins and Christopher Plummer were both well, but there wasn't much for them here. Jared Leto was terribly bad, and his effeminate character was already boring enough. Rosario Dawson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, John Kavanagh and other actors were OK as supporting but had no individual brilliance.On a technical level, the film is flawless. CGI is excellent and gives us some truly beautiful scenes, such Babylon or several battle scenes. Battles are spectacular and full of action, steroids, adrenaline and epic spirit. Cinematography is loaded with warm, intense yellow and red colors, and this sometimes tires our eyes a little, but it's beautiful. Costumes are very detailed and well made. Oliver Stone worked hard on these points and succeeded, but it was the bad script, the actors wooden performances, the erratic narrative and an unpleasant presumption that defeated this film.

Unknownian 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.