Prächtige Ausstattung, bekannte Schauspieler, monumentale Schlachtszenen, beeindruckende Landschaften machen nicht immer einen guten Historienfilm, so leider auch in diesem Fall.
Was nervt? Zunächst schon Länge und Langatmigkeit des Streifens, dann die vielen hölzernen Dialoge, getränkt in hohlem Pathos. Zudem bleibt leider offen, was die Größe und das Charisma dieses legendären Herrschers ausmacht, warum ihm also seine Krieger über viele Jahre fern der Heimat in noch so absurde Metzelein gefolgt sind. Statt dessen: ein eher unglaubwürdiger Held, charakterlich mal Tyrann und Diktator, mal Softie und Weichei, rast- und ziellos wirkend, pathetisch-weinerlich-cholerisch, sexuell angesiedelt zwischen Ödipus, Klaus Wowereit und Dieter Bohlen. Das alles strapaziert die Geduld des Zuschauers erheblich und lässt diesen am Ende doch ziemlich kalt.
Fazit: weder gute Unterhaltung noch brauchbarer Lehrstoff.
Colin Farrell | Alexander |
Angelina Jolie | Olympias |
David Bedella | Scribe |
Val Kilmer | Philip |
Anthony Hopkins | Old Ptolemy |
Jared Leto | Hephaistion |
Rosario Dawson | Roxane |
Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Cassander |
Jessie Kamm | Child Alexander |
Rory McCann | Crateros |
Fiona O'Shaughnessy | Nurse |
Gary Stretch | Cleitus |
Connor Paolo | Young Alexander |
Brian Blessed | Wrestling Trainer |
Ian Beattie | Antigonus |
Patrick Carroll | Young Hephaistion |
Neil Jackson | Perdiccas |
Peter Williamson | Young Nearchus |
Morgan Christopher Ferris | Young Cassander |
Raz Degan | Darius III |
Robert Earley | Young Ptolemy |
Christopher Plummer | Aristotle |
Aleczander Gordon | Young Perdiccas |
John Kavanagh | Parmenion |
Annelise Hesme | Stateira |
Féodor Atkine | Roxane's Father |
Toby Kebbell | Pausanius |
Nick Dunning | Attalus |
Laird Macintosh | Greek Officer |
Marie Meyer | Eurydice |
Francisco Bosch | Bagoas |
Mick Lally | Horse Seller |
Garrett Lombard | Leonnatus |
Chris Aberdein | Polyperchon |
Elliot Cowan | Ptolemy |
Joseph Morgan | Philotas |
Denis Conway | Nearchus |
Michael Dixon | Campfire Soldier |
Tim Pigott-Smith | Omen Reader |
Erol Sander | Persian Prince |
Stéphane Ferrara | Bactrian Commander |
Tadhg Murphy | Dying Soldier |
Jean Le Duc | Fat Eunuch |
Tsouli Mohammed | Persian Chamberlain |
Rab Affleck | Attalus' Henchman |
Harry Kent | Cup Bearer #1 |
Sam Green | Cup Bearer #2 |
Bin Bunluerit | Indian King |
Jaran Ngamdee | Indian Prince |
Brian McGrath | Doctor |
Suzanne Bullock | Roxane dancer |
Kate Elouise | Roxane dancer |
Gillian Grueber | Roxane dancer |
Michelle Lukes | Roxane dancer |
Anjali Mehra | Roxane dancer |
Anthony Jean Marie Kurt | Bagoas dancer |
Marta Barahona | Bagoas dancer |
Monica Zamora | Bagoas dancer |
Benny Maslov | Bagoas dancer |
Tania Matos | Bagoas dancer |
Leighton Morrison | Bagoas dancer |
Isaac Mullins | Bagoas dancer |
Monica Perego | Bagoas dancer |
Matthew Powell | Bagoas dancer |
Paul Rassam | Executive Producer |
Matthias Deyle | Executive Producer |
Rodrigo Prieto | Director of Photography |
Tom Nordberg | Film Editor |
Yann Herve | Film Editor |
Alex Marquez | Film Editor |
Vangelis | Composer |
Jean-Paul Mugel | sound |
Jean Goudier | Supervising Sound Editor |
Wylie Stateman | Supervising Sound Editor |
Vincent Arnardi | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Paul Massey | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Alek Goosse | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Chris David | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Bruno Tarrière | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Ken Yasumoto | Sound Designer |
Fred Attal | Sound Editor |
Selim Azzazi | Sound Editor |
Vincent Montrobert | Sound Editor |
Jan Roelfs | Production Designer |
Kevin Phipps | Art Director |
James Lewis | Art Director |
Stuart Rose | Art Director |
Suzanne Smith | Casting |
Lucinda Syson | Casting |
Sarah Bradshaw | Unit Production Manager |
Billy Hopkins | Casting |
Kerry Barden | Casting |
Jim Erickson | Set Decoration |
Winston Azzopardi | location scout |
Norman Baillie | prosthetic makeup artist |
Jeremy Woodhead | makeup designer |
Gianni Nunnari | Co-Executive Producer |
Pierre Grunstein | Executive Producer |
Hans de Weers | co-producer |
Juliette Ménager | Local Casting |