Sir Sean Connery relieved he turned down a role in `Alexander` flop

Sir Sean Connery is relieved he snubbed Oliver Stone's critically-mauled "Alexander" after early reservations about the coherence of the movie persuaded him not to appear in the epic - reports ContactMusic.

The 74-year-old Scottish actor rejected the role of Philip, which was eventually played by 45-year-old Val Kilmer, because he was unimpressed with the script's "dense" re-telling of the Macedonian warrior's life.

Connery tells HotDog magazine, "I had reservations about the script because I thought the story was too dense, and I wondered, if you are going to say all these things then where is the movie?"

The $150 million movie has since only generated $34.3 million at the American box office, while star Colin Farrel's broad Irish accent has been widely ridiculed.

Thanks to `Goldeneye` for the alert.

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