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: Warner Home Video
: Action, Biopics, Sword & Sandal
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The fourth film to chronicle the life of fourth-century B.C. ruler Alexander the Great, Oliver Stone's Alexander stars Colin Farrell as the titular Macedonian conqueror. The film follows the young king as he leads his forces on a bloody empirical conquest across the known world, taking large parts of Asia and the Middle East to amass a giant empire, all by the time he turned 25. Anthony Hopkins co-stars as Ptolemy I along with Rosario Dawson as Roxane, Angelina Jolie as Olympias, Jared Leto as Hephaistion, Val Kilmer as King Philip II, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Cassander. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
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| Alexander (Director's Cut) (Bonus Disc) (2004) |
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| Colin Farrell's Little Fireman
by shiftless
January 27, 2008 - 1:31 PM PST
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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That was about the only redeeming quality of this movie, and from the best angle too. Seriously, not one single actor was believable in their role in this film. Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie have the best time with it but Colin Farrell and Val Kilmer are awful. There are odd out-of-place accents all over the place.
It is visually sumptuous of course, great color and light, but that alone can't make me enjoy a movie. The love between men in this movie is laughably false, and that only contributes to the disconnect in trying to believe in the reality presented by it. Stone also has the timeline jump back and forth numerous times throughout the film, and that made the time spent watching it all the slower.
The tired noble interpretation of the Great Man or Hero gets a lot of service here too, it would have been more interesting to try something different (why not a more unhinged megalomaniacal/sociopathic Great Man?). Even for someone who loves a sword and sandal movie, I can't recommend anyone see this, you're just not missing anything beyond an extremely nice backside. |
| Immerse yourself in this one and you'll like it..
by Sanjer
December 28, 2005 - 11:01 AM PST
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3 out of 7 members found this review helpful
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| I liked this movie, as it was told through the eyes of Ptolemy, and was pretty brilliant if you compare it to other films that try to do what Oliver Stone did. I normally do not like Colin Farrell as an actor but he surprised me with this role. Most of all this movie I think accurately shows what life may have been like back then, and doesn't sugar coat or over-emphasize the stupid crap that Hollywood movie goers require to understand a period piece. There was a lot of gay themes to the picture, but it was necessary to deliver the true feelings of Alexander and other people of the time, as it was much more accepted then. Colin Farrell really did a good job with this role because you would think a guy like him would kind of drop the ball in trying to making himself a believable homo. The fight scene at the end of the picture is gnarly. Rosario Dawson has a smaller part, but she is nude in one scene, which is a plus. |
| Sorry, but no!
by TCrane
November 28, 2005 - 7:53 PM PST
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5 out of 6 members found this review helpful
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First of all, I'm a huge fan of Oliver Stone's past work. So I went into this one pretty hopeful that it would be another innovative take on the subject, alas, this was not to be. This film is a complete mess, to uneven acting (whoever cast that Colin guy as Alexander was obviously not paying attention to his wooden meat-headed performance), the fact that no one one could decide on what accent to use (Russian for Angelina, Scottish for everyone else?), the overblown and cliched musical score, and a desperately overwritten and confusing script. The only highlight was Anthony Hopkins, but even he wasn't enough to save this extremely confusing, un-skillfully shot 'epic'. I really, really, hate to give the work of a director I respect such a bad review, but in this case this film earned it.
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