Review of Alexander (2004) by Shag00 — 06 Sep 2022

There was a lot of raw material to make a film from, after all Alexander was one of history's stand out individuals. The film starts out in sometime B.C. and for 3 hours it switches between 10 years earlier, 3 months later, 15 years earlier etc, etc. All very confusing and all very unnecessary, after all he is an historical figure.

I thought the mother's role was over done. Let's face it, if a son moves overseas for the best part of a decade it's a good bet he's not to closely tied/reliant on his mother. The whole thing with snakes and the mother was just crass.

Alexander's motive for world domination is passable addressed but the multiple other aspects of his life are largely ignored and though facts are scarce as this happened such a long time ago some risk could have been taken via poetic licence for the reasons he did what he did.