Movie Miscasts: Alexander 11

We don't remember much of what we learned in our high school history classes, but we're reasonably certain that Alexander the Great was Greek. So, you can imagine our surprise when Oliver Stone cast Colin Farrell in the central role of his 2004 biopic. The Dublin native did nothing to disguise his Irish brogue and played Alexander as if he were a lifelong Liffeysiders fan who feasted on shamrocks and gargled with Guinness. To make matters worse, Farrell's refusal to dump his accent forced supporting actors Val Kilmer and Jared Leto to adopt Irish accents of their own to cover any anomaly. The result was a sonic mess that made the film feel far more like fantasy than the glorious history it promised to convey.