Alexander: The Directors Cut (2004)

It's kind of funny that while 9/11 and its aftermath were happening, and in the early days of the Iraq war, events that would call out as being veritable trigger words for Oliver Stone, this most political of directors was tied up, his energies focused on an unwildley bio-pic of Alexander the Great. There are four different cuts of this movie, it's as though the director thinks if he just keeps re arranging things eventually the picture will work, this does not appear to be the case. Alexander is a mess, it's all over the place, it's over long, and it just doesn't engage, I just couldn't get myself to care. Colin Ferrell is miscast as the ancient Greek leader, and the films handling of his reported bisexuality has been widely regarded as Luke warm and non-committal. Oh were that you could care for any character in this movie, but you really can't. A disaster.  *