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(continued) Colin Farrell was NOT strong enough in screen presence to carry off this role. He just didn't have it. He looked girlie. And it wasn't just the curly blond hair and the toga. He can play a metrosexual cop, but he could never, for instance, carry off a WW II Robert Mitchum role.

When he put on the war helmet, it made him look more manly, and the way it framed his face, he looked extremely macho. Once the helmet came off, that was it.

Yes he was very weepy thru this film. Unbe-LIEV-able! This was a violent age, but this Alexander had tears running down his cheeks...countless times. I lost count. And his feelings were always getting hurt because his generals didn't love him enough.

The dialogue was atrocious. The worst line was Alexander riding into battle trying to rally his men, shouting, "Do you want to live forever?" (Yes, we've heard that line before, in Conan the Barbarian. And since it was a signature line in that film, it was very jarring to hear it in a serious historical film.)

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Colin Farrell was NOT strong enough in screen presence to carry off this role.

The only film of Farrell's I've seen is Phone Booth, which was pretty entertaining provided you didn't think about it too much. It was also mercifully short, which Alexander apparently isn't.