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Generally well-wrought film, with Burton perhaps a little stiff in the lead (and sporting a Christopher Atkins perm!) Supporting cast of veteran epic players are all fine, with Andrews reliably excellent, and March the highlight as Alexander's father; underplayed Oedipal interpretation works well. Rossen directs the action scenes competently, but film overall is lacking the fire of the greatest epics, and is a little too stiff and formal to be campy fun. Still quite enjoyable for genre fans.

Because it's Oliver Stone this movie is never boring. That said, who agreed to let Black Irishman Colin Farrell go blonde? Who okayed the tiled wall maps in Latinate English (absurd)? The intoning explanations by Anthony Hopkins to try and make sense of the rambling inchoate mess of a plot? I give Stone points for trying, for staying reasonably intelligent about the whole thing and going for the homosexual text, but then when the movie fails he backs off and cuts the stuff out of the DVD! He sh

Truly epic in its scope this does belong with the pantheon of historical epics. The pace slips at times and it needed a good editor to keep the story moving (at least by today's pace) - However some good acting albeit a little melodramatic at times. Sound coverage of the macedonian story.

A pretty typical epic of the time. Interesting battle sequences although it gets pretty boring at times. This film is quite average.