Movie review: Alexander

Well, after sitting on my dvr for 10 months i finally got around to this movie. It stars Colin Ferrel and Angelina Jolie (as his mom of all people) and details Alexander the Great's conquests over persia, and into asia, all while restling with demons from his past..AKA his dad the drunkard king played by, and this caught me off guard, a rather poorly aging Val Kilmer. Who, while his career has seen way better days (ie- top gun and the doors, oh, and he turned down the part to play morpheous in the matrix..nice move dummy).

Anywho..the movie itself was actually kinda decent. I enjoyed the battle scenes..the scenery...it was okay. I can't really explain why else other then the fact for an over 2 hour and 30 minute movie, it went by kinda quickly. Cause frankly, i should have hated it.

Angelina jolie and colin ferrel had HORRIBLE accents. Angelina Jolie's defy's description, plus she didn't age till 30 years into the movie. She was the same appearance at both the 10 year mark and the 20 year part and we see no skin shots of her. Stupid.

Colin Ferrel has NUMEROUS slips where you can hear his natural irish accent peaking thru. It's freakin' obvious and can't believe nobody else caught it.

Let's see..what esle bothered me..oh, turns out Alexander the Great could also be called Alexander the Gay. Yep, he had a wife, but only so he could have a son. He had a chamber boy and a best friend of whom he loved. They didn't show it, but there was kissing, grouping and a brief shot of colin's apple sack. Nothing that i signed on for during the movie.

Basically, i wouldn't rent it, but am glad i saw it. The action was good, the story, i hated and was too drawn out...and frankly, i don't need to see another guy's man bag for any reason in a film. So, if you are flipping around tv and it happens to come on, check it out for a bit, but if it's not a fighting scene...turn it.