I didn´t went to watch Alexander, I went to watch another lambasted movie, Kenny Corran´s Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I was pleasantly surprised, because it wasn´t as bad as I had expected based on the reviews or as bad as it seemed at first. But it certainly lacked depth. The plot was largely an excuse to show in the screen the director´s visions, so the characters should have been given more room, the interaction of the main characters and giving them more time to do so could have hidden the poor plot somewhat. I say poor in the terms of realistic movie making; this movie is really a comic book in the screen, so if taken so, the plot is pretty standard for comics - but it could still have been more.

There are couple of points where more could have been made of Totenkopfs disillusion with humanity and his willigness to destroy for it in exchange of a new beginning; for example, the fact that he died in 10.11.1918. Now, Corran expects everyone to know that he died a day before the Armistice that ended the the First World War - or, as it would have been known to the movie´s characters(who speak of the First World War in the movie, even if the movie´s timeline probably hasn´t got a Second World War hidden somewhere in the 1920s or 1930s; the movie is said in reviews to be placed in 1939, but the Sky Captain is said to have flown with American volunteers in China three years before the movie, so that should make it 1940):The Great War - and that the horrors of that war were the reason for his plan. But how many in the audience remember this and connect the dots correctly? It wouldn´t have taken many exchanges of lines between the characters to enlighten the audience.

Altogether, the movie has the feeling that we should already be acquinted with the previous adventures of the Sky Captain and his world, but these exists only in the mind of the director himself, which he seems to have forgotten. More world building for the Director´s Cut on the DVD, please.

Some problems:
- Those amphibious airplanes sure have odd wings. When they hit the water at that angle, the wings should just rip away from the hulls...
- How did the robot get to the spaceship?
- Why didn´t the Sky Captain´s base put the other airplanes in the air as there would have been ample time to do so? There´s not much sense having tens of airplanes when you leave them on the ground to be destroyed... They could have just been shot down in the movie etc.
- Putting Angelina Jolie´s name on the posters and in the opening credits with Law´s and Paltrow´s is really cheating the audience...

Good points:
- As a first full digital movie, this one is pretty good. Artificial to the eye almost all of the time, but it fits the "comic book on the screen" -style.
- I enjoyed it surprisingly much in the end. Could even watch it for a second time.