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Alexander
Warner Bros.
FILM:
GAMES:
MPAA RATING: R for violence and some sexuality/nudity
Starring
Colin Farrell,
Angelina Jolie,
Val Kilmer,
Anthony Hopkins,
Jared Leto,
Rosario Dawson,
Christopher Plummer,
and
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Based on the true story of one of history's most luminous and influential leaders, Alexander takes a bold, honest look at Alexander's life and his relationships. (Warner Bros.)
| GENRE(S): |
Adventure
|
Drama
|
War
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Oliver Stone
Christopher Kyle
Laeta Kalogridis
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Oliver Stone
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 2, 2005
Theatrical: November 24, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
173 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / UK / Germany / Netherlands |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Vast, riveting, madly audacious movie biography.

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It's boldly acted, absorbing and satisfying as a history lesson and chock-full of extravagantly brutal battle sequences.

80
Empire
Ian Nathan
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.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
If, as the Virgil quote that starts the film claims, fortune favors the bold, Alexander has not been nearly bold enough.

70
New York Magazine
Ken Tucker
As one of the few movies around not pushing state-of-the-art animation or Jude Law, Alexander is a damn good date movie.

70
Time
Richard Corliss
Makes for a long, lumpy trip with a charismatic guide and some brilliant detours.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The best there is to say is that it's better than ''Troy."

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
What Alexander lacks in narrative clarity, it makes up for with pomp and pageantry.

60
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
The creators of Alexander set out to make an epic, and they can't be faulted for the many elements that succeed on this scale; what's unfortunate is that they don't quite deliver a camp classic.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Since the movie lacks a vision of what Alexander was really about as a man and a figure in history, it falls back all too frequently on movie spectacle.

50
Variety
Todd McCarthy
At best an honorable failure, an intelligent and ambitious picture that crucially lacks dramatic flair and emotional involvement.

50
Newsweek
David Ansen
Sometimes stunning, ultimately stupefying epic .

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
By de-mythologizing Alexander, Stone has turned him into an unbelievable individual. We accept great deeds from great people, not from sniveling whiners.

50
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
What Stone has delivered instead is no folie de grandeur, but rather the last thing one would have expected from him: an honorable failure.

50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Despite a three-hour running time Stone is too occupied with psychodrama to explore Alexander's innovations in battle, and Farrell, clearly out of his depth, seems less a leader of men than a Hellenistic James Dean.

50
Slate
David Edelstein
Forget Alexander: The film is a pedestal to Angelina the great.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
[Stone] gives us provocative notes and sketches but not a final draft. The film doesn't feel at ease with itself. It says too much, and yet leaves too much unsaid.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Call it "Alexander the Grate," because, over the marathon of its three-hour running time, this wonky epic really does get on your nerves.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Farrell plays all this as if he means it, but he seems slight in the role and without great physical presence. In a scene in which Alexander is roaring at his troops to rouse them to battle, he sounds like Mighty Mouse pretending to be Superman.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
An exhausted epic, one that Stone has directed with an almost startling lack of personality or vision.

40
TV Guide
Ken Fox
There are two stunning battle sequences, and that rose-tinted bloodbath is a stroke of the eccentric genius for which Stone is famous.

40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Enjoyable in some places, but dreadful in others. It's boring here and exciting there. And it's almost always goofy.

40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Never have a great historical hero's accomplishments seemed so inconsequential, or so damned hard to figure out.

40
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The happy couple (Farrell/Dawson) do enjoy one great scene together, and it's the high point of the movie-a naked tussle, in which she puts a knife to his throat. The whole sequence is quick, funny, and arousing, in sharp contrast to the rest of Alexander, which is sluggish, unsmiling.

38
USA Today
Mike Clark
A movie that has neither dramatic focus nor a single memorable performance, aside from one or two that are memorable for the wrong reasons?

38
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
As huge a travesty and a bore as 1956's "Alexander the Great," in which Richard Burton looked equally uncomfortable as a blond.

38
Premiere
Peter Debruge
An ambitious disaster, Alexander is the rare historical portrait that leaves you feeling as though you know less about its subject than you did upon entering the theater.

33
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A dreary, overlong and occasionally laughable classical epic about the great Macedonian world conqueror, it's guilty of a sin that no Stone film has ever committed: It's boring.

30
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
After the three hours--though it seemed longer--I was still bewildered. Stone is a unique and fiery talent. Why did he make this film?

30
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Stone has made an excruciating disaster for the ages.

30
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
This is the costliest, most logistically complex feature of the filmmaker's career, and it appears that the effort to wrangle so many beasts, from elephants to movie stars and money men, along with the headaches that come with sweeping period films, got the better of him.

30
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Although inexplicable brogues and burrs appear and disappear, and although Stone post-produces the dickens of his movie trying to generate the maximum spit-fog of sound and fury, Alexander manages to be as dull as the Victor Mature films of the 1950s, which barely moved at all.

30
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Like every other second of more than 10,000 seconds in Alexander, it doesn't engage in the least.

30
Film Threat
Merle Bertrand
A movie celebrating the life of the greatest military conqueror the world has ever known should feature a bit more conquering.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
There's no zest to the general depravity, no coherence to the script or the spectacle -- clarity is missing in some of the camera work -- and, most important, no character to give a Greek fig about.
25
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
It's astounding that the ingenious creator of "JFK" and "Wall Street" could make an epic on war and empire that's so utterly simplistic and unreflective.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Stone tries to make us like Alexander because he's good, when he should have made us want to watch Alexander because he's amazing.

25
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Both the sex and the battle sequences here look like football plays drawn by an NFL coach and shot by the wide receiver's mother. Usually, even when I don't like a Stone film I admire its frenzied energy, but the editing here is as lethargic as the compositions are perfunctory.

25
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Alexander breaks the key rule that makes movies move: Show, don't tell.

25
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The movie is a monument to egomania - and I don't mean Alexander's.

25
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
This movie is an act of hubris so huge that, in Alexander's time, it would draw lightning bolts from contemptuous gods. Today it will get sniggers from stunned critics and a collective yawn from a public unlikely to share Stone's egomania.

11
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It is, in a word, boring, and that's the most un-Oliver Stone adjective I can think of.


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