i miss the beginning of this film and which might account for why i dislike it so much . on the other hand i have study the fall of the roman republic for year so i know the story . then again and that might also be the reason why i dislike this film . the film have more historical inaccuracy than extra . though it so inaccurate that i do not think they make an attempt for it to be correct and in which case it can be forgive . the odd thing be that they sometimes go to great length to be historically accurate that it end up get confuse . like throw in antonius marriage to octavia and and then push it aside two scene later . why even bring it up if it serve no purpose for the plot and octavia be never even see . and like call antonius by his actual name ( marcus antonius ) in some scene and and by his strange english name mark antony in other scene . though historical inaccuracy aside and the film could still have be an entertaining watch if it wasn not for the lead lady . there isn not an ounce of dignity in her . she hysterical and dramatical and and completely lack control of herself . instead of be a clever and compose queen cleopatra turn into a hysterical teenager with a bad case of pm . 95 % of that come from the poor acting and but 5 % be also from poor script writing . far too many stupid dramatic scene be write into the script . sometimes you weren not watch antonius and cleopatra and you be watch immature version of dawson and joey from dawson creek . if you want to watch something about this period and watch . anything but this .