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Too long, boring and extremely historically inaccurate! Babylon did belong to the Persian Empire for almost 300 years out of almost 3000 years of it's life, BUT... the capital of Persia at the time of Alexander was Persepolis which Alexander went to directly from Macedonia and set fire on (and did not reside in) Darious iii was a King of the Achaemenid dynasty and therefore a Zoroastrian who had only one wife, ruled as a queen (not a harem of half naked wives dancing to modern Arabic music!) Polygamy entered Iran after Islam while the story happens 330 years before the birth of Christ and 950 years before the birth of Muhammad! There was no desert on the way from Macedonia to Persepolis or even on his way to India. Although Alexander DID die in Babylon (which again was NOT the capital of Persia, but a colony) and it is also discussed that he had also had a male lover (an adolescent boy) At least the makers were decent enough to admit that they did not do much historical research for the movie, and tried to focus on the dramatic side of it. Besides, what was with the accents?!!!
3/10
9.8.2008 -
shiva,kashi@ - age: 26-35
The movie was very good and a great tribute to the worlds greatist conqorer. Unfortunatly anyone with a simple mind or a weak mind would dislike this movie ( no offence to the above.
8/10
13.3.2008 -
thegodzillaking@ - age: 13-17
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To be perfectly honest my favortie historical character is Alexander the Great and that for many reasons. That is why I could be biased when giving this rating because I could not, not like this movie. It actually is my favorite ever since I saw it. Oliver Stone did something amazing and that is to show that in a world filled with discrimination where you have slaves and where each race think they are more and better than the other... here is Alexander who even to quote him "... what makes you so much better than them casander..." wanted to unify them, make them all get along like a big family. Although historically it did happen like that. It was enjoyable. I did not expect to see so much gay stuff, but I guess there was a reason for it so I still try to figure it out, but I guess time will tell. I definitely recommend it, but don't waste your time unless you are going to watch. One of the all time best, that was, simply misunderstood. Daniel. G.
10/10
13.9.2007 -
daniel1812@ - age: 18-25
This movie wasn't the worst I've ever seen, but WOW did they do a horrible job. If you compare this to Troy, the acting is unbelievably bad!! How could they cast such a loser like Colin Farrell? He isn't manly enough to play this part for one. And ALL movie I couldn't stop staring at his dye job, because they didn't even lighten his eyebrows to match it and make it look more natural. Do you think they bleached their hair back then!?! This movie had SO MUCH potential and it flopped.
5/10
18.6.2007 -
miss__brittany@ - age: 18-25
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Colin Farrel you were Great! I am Greek... but does it take a Greek to appreciate this movie? Alexander the Great is not a myth... he is a living legend that will never be repeated. At 21 he set out to conquer the world and he would have, had he not been cut-off short of his life so prematurely. With an army of 40, 000 he defeated "Darius" and his 250, 000 men! It takes more than a man to accomplish this, especially in those times without amunition, tanks or planes! 'Someone' mentioned that Colin Farell was not suitable for the role and that a more mature actor should have been used for the role. WHY? What was wrong with Colin? We are not simply discussing 'a movie' we are referring to HISTORY and whoever doesn't like history or doesn't know a thing about what the film he's about to see is about, should simply not go and see it! The life of Alexander undoubtedly could not be covered in 3 hrs, but Oliver Stone managed to include the most part of what reflected Alexander's life; bravery, wittyness, a great general, a great king, strength, tyrancy, egotistsm, ambitiousness, and even his sensitivity and fears. The battles were profound especially that at Gaugamela... the dust and the aerial view of Alexander's strategic fuse was remarkable. However, I do believe that the events at Thebes and the burning of Persepolis are two very important bookmarks in Alexander's conquests that should never have been left out, as they are accounted for some of his later actions. I agree on the views of "carthous" (in this streamline of reviews) that "Alexander was not only made Great on account of his military conquests alone", there was a great deal more in this heroic man than anyone can imagine! What a shame he was deprived of the fullfilment of this vision!
9/10
7.8.2006 -
soulmate@ - age: 36-49
Missed t he threater seen it on dvd at home. One thing was why why why did you spilit this movies at two dvd. Dvd is suposed to be bettter than vhs no spiting of movies please it is like this movie is old and could not have do or to be bother with the dvd purchacers just like the gang of new york dvd. It is dvd not vhs if you do not know what you are doing hire a grade school student to get the dvd movies on one, one, one dvd. Exta feture on a second is good although I may watch the special feature only once maybe, not all that interesting as the movie that I would becide get at the video store and take home. I never think wow look at all the feature, I would just like to see the movie in one par not two.
5/10
14.1.2006 -
cecilchestnut@ - age: 36-49
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A movie about power, integrity, greed, and betryale, the story line at times moves a little to slowly, but the battle scenes make up for it with gut wrenching violence leaveing you hungry for more, Troy was much better however.
7/10
7.9.2005 -
cfh_trendkill@ - age: 18-25
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