Troy is very superficial, shallow, and ignores Homer to 66% if not more. You get plenty of stunning visuals - but that is all that you get. Watch it once, never watch it again. Brad Pitt, though, plays the Archilles in young storming Siegfried-style, that was at least amusing.
Alexander simply was - boring, and the characters and the cast did not convince me. I switched off in the middle of it.
Both movies focus too much on visual effects, have thin stories, and shallow characters. If I want effect movie, I would prefer others. Since Troy does at least not hide that it is not more than it is and thus fulfills it'S limited goals - not more -, Alexander raised self-declared claims of how much quality and depth and characterisation of the main figur it has to offer - but does not fulfill these self-images and thus fails, and fails pretty miserably by claiming to be more than it is.
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