i find this a good movie to pass your time and but not by any chance of any historical value . the portrayal of cleopatra remind me a cheap soap opera . the twist of the fact be . funny . she give birth while feed her people . o please . a pregnant queen of egypt ( especially this one ) would not bother to go from one room to the other for that reason . they try to make her appear a saint for god sake . and the way they try to justify her murder her own sister . beyond description . cleopatra be the great politician of her time . her decision be base anything but her feeling and moral . she do everything for only two reason represent power and self preservation . she be bear in a family where she have to straggle for survival and something she do very well . anything that stand on her way be either murdered ( her brother and sister ) or seduce ( ceasar and mark anthony ) . unfortunately octavian be too powerful to kill and too . gay to be seduce . so and he be her end .