Reviews Written by jill

Soo much wasted potential!

Pros: beautiful sets, locations, costumes, soundtrack,

Cons: wasted the talent it had, poor direction

I was quite disappointed with Oliver Stone's interpretation of this historical figure. I would have thought that the director of such brilliant films like JFK and Natural Born Killers would have known better then to just throw in flashbacks as a plot device. It broke up the fluidity of the movie.

As for the homosexual overtones, they have been incredibly overexaggerated by reviewers and critics alike (just watch an episode of Queer As Folk to see what I mean). The rating is perfectly legitamite in this case. However, the approach of the relationship between Alexander and his male 'lover' is so coy as to be annoying. And as with the other characters who had a name (if they were lucky) but little to no known backstory the lover (Hephastion?) was delegated to background dressing in most of the movie, completely wasting Jared Leto's talent.

Rent 'The Jacket' instead. MUCH better film! ...