You're probably right on both counts. As I said I wanted to hate Alexander but couldn't. I still think Passion of the Christ is pernicious but you're justified in saying that in technical terms it's effective --though that doesn't mean naturalistic: the blood looked faker and faker as it accumulated on Jesus, and looked like an add-on coating. I was reaching, because my list isn't very deep in bad films since I avoid them carefully -- perhaps wrongly, since they make the good ones look better. Indeed bad foreign films are harder to avoid for several reasons.