WAR-TORN.(movie review)(Movie Review)

For more than thirty years, the shy, self-effacing Oliver Stone has been nursing fantasies of a film about Alexander the Great, although what attracted him to such a megalomaniac I can't begin to imagine. In the meantime, Stone has been forced to fill his days with sissy little chamber pieces such as "Natural Born Killers," "Born on the Fourth of July," and "Platoon." Now, at last, the hour has come, or, to be specific, the two hours and fifty minutes. That's a long haul, but then Alexander, whose idea of a brisk after-lunch walk was to march a hundred thousand men and their supporting retinue across the Hindu Kush, covered a lot of ground.

He is played, in ...