Alexander (2004)
16 %
Reviews Counted: 189 Fresh: 30 Rotten:159 Average Rating: 3.9/10
Consensus:
Even at nearly three hours long, this ponderous, talky, and emotionally distant biopic fails to illuminate Alexander's life.
Runtime: 5 hrs 34 mins
Theatrical Release: Nov 24, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $34,264,081
Synopsis: Director Oliver Stone chalks up an ambitious entry on his biopic resume (past entries include films about Jim Morrison, Richard Nixon, and JFK among others) with this cinematic treatise on the life of the mighty Alexander the Great. Despite his young death at 32, Alexander packed some... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Rosario Dawson, Jared Leto
Director: Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: Oliver Stone, Christopher Kyle, Laeta Kalogridis
Producer: Thomas Schuhly, Jon Kilik, Iain Smith, Moritz Borman
Composer: Vangelis
Screenwriter: Oliver Stone, Christopher Kyle, Laeta Kalogridis
Producer: Thomas Schuhly, Jon Kilik, Iain Smith, Moritz Borman
Composer: Vangelis
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This oracular piece of hero-worship is perhaps the squarest film yet from this once-hip director.
07/23/07
Stone gives us some truly stirring visuals, music that soars and charges more often than not, and, um, performances that . . . Well, um, okay, about those performances . . .
09/01/06
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06/24/06
Unwieldy and flawed, but Stone remains a tornado in an era of airless formula and -- to paraphrase our Ptolemy -- its failings are greater than most films' successes.
04/01/06
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01/17/06
By summoning his inner classicist, [director] Stone has made an excruciating disaster for the ages.
09/26/05
The movie loses energy when Stone repeats himself, and there are far too many of these scenes between his brilliantly staged, devastating battle scenes.
04/23/05
'Como obra cinematográfica, no es la pésima cinta que han destrozado. Es la simple interpretación de un talentoso cineasta sobre la vida de una leyenda de la humanidad'
04/04/05
The picture is so thoroughly ridiculous, it's hard to know where to begin in listing its infelicities. But I'll try.
03/18/05
Though the battles have the blood-and-sinew bravado you expect from Oliver Stone, this three-hour buttnumbathon is hamstrung by a hectoring grandiosity, not new to Stone, and a nod toward caution, which is.
03/06/05
Top Critic
The film's sense of drama and tension makes the experience alive and palpable.
02/20/05
An overview of an intensely passionate life as few film-makers could bring it to the screen.
02/16/05
Big, grand, messy. If you enjoy a nice slice of Hollywood miscalculation every now and then--and who doesn't--you might have a good time.
01/24/05
A garbled, over-stuffed turkey force fed with historical events until its liver explodes in a spectacularly colourful and violent bloodbath, tempered with sinewy speeches.
01/17/05
By the time its three hours are over, you will feel as exhausted as Alexander at the end of his epic campaign - but not as enriched.
01/15/05
Colin Farrell is woefully miscast in the lead, but that's the least of Alexander's problems because the film is a disaster on an epic scale: sprawling, messy, incoherent and an early contender for one of the worst movies of 2005.
01/15/05
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