A cinematic genius, not many can doubt Stone's directorial abilities.

Historical accuracy, however, has been something the director has nonchalantly looked through as if it interfered with the plot he sees in his head, be it disillusioned portraits of war-struck youth (Platoon), Presidential assassinations (JFK), or portraits of South American dictators (Commandante).

He has visibly chosen fanciful fact over fiction, well evidenced in his biopic on Jim Morrison, The Doors, where he relied on a brilliant cast to create a film mired in sensationalism and misleading, irresponsible inaccuracy.

This time too he tackles the subject of a deified young man who died an early death, and one just wishes he refrains from turning Alexander into Conan The Barbarian, the film he wrote in 1982.