2004 Directed by Oliver Stone
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Colin Farrell Angelina Jolie Val Kilmer Jared Leto Jonathan Rhys Meyers Anthony Hopkins Jessie Kamm Christopher Plummer Connor Paolo Patrick Carroll Peter Williamson Morgan Christopher Ferris Robert Earley Aleczander Gordon John Kavanagh Gary Stretch Rosario Dawson Féodor Atkine Toby Kebbell Fiona O'Shaughnessy Laird Macintosh Francisco Bosch Neil Jackson Garrett Lombard Chris Aberdein Rory McCann Raz Degan Joseph Morgan David Bedella Show All…
Moritz Borman Jon Kilik Thomas Schühly Iain Smith Oliver Stone Tabrez Noorani Santa Pestonji Matthias Deyle Pierre Grunstein Aslan Nadery Paul Rassam Volker Schauz Kurt P. Galvao Nicolas Bonnell
Jan Roelfs Lek Chaiyan Chunsuttiwat Stéphane Cressend Desmond Crowe James Lewis Kathleen Lorden Kevin Phipps Stuart Rose Lotta Wolgers Abdellah Baadil Claudio Campana Frederic Evard Aziz Hamichi Christian Huband Tom Still
Aurelia Abate Joyce Menger Kilou Picard John Scheele Elliott Jobe Rudi Holzapfel Sébastien Drouin Stephane Ceretti Olivier Pron Pierre Michel-Estival David Allday
Julien Perez Damien Bera Gréggory Poncelet Wylie Stateman Jean Goudier Chris David Alek Goosse Bruno Tarrière Damien Lazzerini Frédéric Attal
Since we don't actually know what ancient Macedonians sound like let's each pick a different accent!
I see Angie's gone with the "crazed gypsy accent" while Mr Farrell went with the "vaguely European mumble accent", Val decided on "mostly Californian" and Anthony went for "jolly old British".
*confused face*
THE FOLLOWING TAKES PLACE BETWEEN 11AM AND 3PM
The film Alexander has just entered its second agonising hour...
Me: "God, this film is awful."
Richard: "It's not. It's just not. There's plenty."
Me: "I think I see where they're going with this."
Richard: "What?"
Me: "Jared Leto is in love with Alexander, and he's looking at him marrying his new wife. So, here's what's gonna happen..."
Richard: "What's gonna happen?"
Me: "Alexander is going to find his wife with her neck slit open in bed, and written in blood on the wall above will be 'MEET ME AT THE MOUNTAIN TOP, so Alexander will have to fight Jared Leto on the mountain where they trained as kids. There will be…
Ultimate Cut
"Directed by Oliver Stone"
Are you EVER.
"Music by Vangelis"
Is it EVER.
A suitably rousing epic that compels despite its issues with script and production, Oliver Stone's "Alexander" provides a full-bodied cinematic experience. Sweeping and, on occasion, stirring, Stone's film appeals as a solid observation of the deeds of a larger-than-life conqueror.
Beginning three centuries before the so-called common era, "Alexander" tells the story of the Macedonian King who led his armies through Asia, piecing together an empire for the ages. The film splits its narrative focus between the youth of Alexander and his conquest of the much of the known world.
Starring Colin Farrell as Alexander, Stone is never able to get under the King's skin. Though the film attempts to pay attention to Alexander's bed-hopping internal turmoil, the audience is…
The further back into history you delve, the more mythical some figures become. Stories about legends handed down through the ages that get embellished until the waters about what is truth and what is fiction get murkier and murkier.
Alexander The Great was a military leader and King Of Macedonia who conquered large parts of Asia Minor, Egypt, and the ancient Persian Empire. This account of his more famous exploits including his fractious relationship with his father and his quest to conquer the known world is at times thrilling, but historically suspect to say the least. Oliver Stone's film came in for criticism from all fronts. From Colin Farrell's performance as the bi-sexual Alexander, to the casting of Angelina Jolie…
Every movie enthusiast is familiar with the feeling of admiring a movie that everybody else seems to despise. Most of us have quite a few of those. I certainly have my fair share, but the movie that immediately pops into my mind in such discussions is Oliver Stone’s "Alexander".
Most critics panned the theatrical version, the box office was a letdown and it even got 6 Razzie Award nominations. This movie was on almost every level a complete failure. Flawed as it was, I did not quite get why. But then again I was only a teenager, what did I know?
In 2007, Oliver Stone released his Final Cut, which he called "Alexander Revisited". I only got around to watch…
Oliver Stone took an epic expedition into the hinterlands up his ass and came out with.... this? Even more of a boondoggle than I thought; bloated, meandering, unintentional camp that's 1/3 battles, 1/3 convoluted history, 1/3 tiptoe-ingly, cowardly kinda-sorta-gay. Ridiculous. Also why does Angelina Jolie sound like Dracula
The presentation that I witnessed on this particular occasion was the so-called DIRECTOR'S CUT. What a crock of shizzle. x
I miss movies like that in this generation. 3h 30m with a interval.
Today they will make this like - Alexander: The Battle (Part I), The Rise (Part II), The Fall (Part III). Shame on you HollyWood.
Great movie!
An unmitigated disaster, Oliver Stone’s sprawling Alexander is an unbearable 173 minute alternative to Chinese water torture. No movie in recent memory combines atrocious screenwriting, atrocious acting, atrocious directing, and atrocious editing as effectively as this lumbering marathon. Its *defenders*—and they’re few in number—have hailed Alexander as a flawed, but ambitious, motion picture. I fail to see what’s so ambitious about it. Sure, Stone’s always been fascinated by conspiracies and double-crossing (JFK, Nixon) as well as societal conventions (Natural Born Killers), and he sacrifices aspects of the normal epic in Alexander to focus on Alexander’s many weaknesses—and the public perception of him throughout his life. So what? Almost all the sequences of this kind—Alexander’s initial drunken shouting match with King…
6/10 I gave this a chance despite bad reviews but they were right. Farrell is surprisingly awful as a whiny weak Alexander in a series of bad yellow wigs (with black eyebrows) and an Irish accent! Jolie sounds like Natasha from Bullwinkle. An epic like this should be told more linearly not with flashbacks and flash forwards. Meh.
Ambizioso, ma proprio Stone non ce l'ha fatta. Colin Farrell si produce in una performance comica suo malgrado. Tra la noia e l'imbarazzo.
The tale of the conquests of the legendary Alexander the Great is a fascinating one, but sadly on this evidence one too great for the big screen to handle. Oliver Stone's sprawling epic traverses most of Asia to show Alexander’s exploits but in attempting to tell the whole story of the legendary hero’s life, the film is often too episodic to really grip, only tied together by Anthony Hopkins' meandering narration. For example a significant section of the film (at the beginning or in the middle depending on which cut you watch) is devoted to the battle of Gaugamela, recreated by Stone in gloriously exciting colour and detail with eagle-eye cameras that soar over the battlefield to show off the…
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