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".

neutrinobelmondo Oliver Stone must have been stoned during the shooting of the film. In fact, I believe that everybody involved with this production was stoned. Poor and stupid script, story, acting, directing, etc... Hollywood is known for misunderstanding and misrepresenting historical events, people, etc...or in short screwing up history but this is the ultimate screw up.

landyvlad This film is truly terrible, in almost every respect.It does highlight a major fault with the IMDb rating system, in that one star is far too generous. If I could give it zero stars, I would. If I could bill those behind this film for my time wasted, I would.The sum contribution of all the people involved in the making of this film, however, cannot be dismissed quite so easily. They have found a cure for insomnia orders of magnitude better than temazepam. A warning though - I didn't get through a lot this film, and it may be possible to overdose and cause severe damage to your neural functions.Overall, best avoided.

karagoz-emre I wanted to watch this movie for far too long but I always delayed it to watch other movies because there wasn't an incentive to watch it, 5.5 points on IMDb? really? oh boy, i was so wrong.This movie totally satisfied me, as i wasn't expecting much from it.The story telling was great, I liked the switch between the past and the present(less past?) often. It really helped us to understand the character better.In my defense, I was always interested in Alexander the Great but I never fully had to chance to know about him. This movie managed to overcome my hunger.Same as during the battle scenes, it keeps us informed as "macedonian right" or "macedonian center" things like that. i wish all movies would do that so that i can grasp the battle really, totally in essence.I'm trying to understand people's mindset about this. I guess maybe it came out in the same year with Troy in 2004. Troy was also about history but the battle scenes were soo much more quality than Alexander for sure. Maybe people were expecting to see something similar.The character buildup is great, soon after i started to feel like i was there with Alexander or i felt like i was him, making the decisions and he always kept his calm and explained when he needed to. Maybe we got the characters so well because the movie is pretty long. According to IMDb its 2:55 but i watched a version which it was even longer 3:33. But I never felt bored. This movie is a must for history lovers. If you are looking for glorious battle scenes you might not find them.I'm a lover of maps and a sizable chunk of the movie passes on showing the maps during studies of young Alexander or in his chambers before battle and when the storyteller tells us. So it was not too much nor too less. Extremely adequate.In papers English was written in Greek style which was a nice touch.Music at the end (i knew it, but i didn't know the name so i shazamed it) was amazing (titans vangelis). It was a nice finishing touch for such a great movie.Also I had to like the movie, even though i wouldn't have liked the movie in general out of respect to the amazing actors i know from various movies and series:(i'll just type their names and most prominent acts in my eyes)Anthony Hopkins {Kidnapping Mr. Heineken, Noah, The Silence of the Lambs, Amistad}Angelina Jolie {Salt, Wanted, Kung Fu Panda, Mr. & Mrs. Smith}Val Kilmer {Hardwired, Felon, The Love Guru, Heat}Christopher Plummer {Inside Man, Syriana, A Beautiful Mind, Twelve Monkeys}Colin Farrell {True Detective, The Lobster, Seven Psychopaths, S.W.A.T., Hart's War, Tigerland}Jared Leto {Suicide Squad, Mr. Nobody, Lord of War, Fight Club}Jonathan Rhys Meyers {From Paris with Love}Rory McCann {Game of Thrones}Toby Kebbell {Gold, Warcraft: The Beginning, Black Mirror, War Horse, The Veteran, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time}Rosario Dawson {Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Unstoppable, Seven Pounds, Clerks II, Sin City, 25th Hour}