Alexander

Pros: Supporting cast, infrequent battle scenes
Cons: Story, Acting, Directing, Cinematography

Alexander the Great is a challenging subject: the young man who conquered the known world and suddenly died at 33 crammed so many big achievements into his short career that he has been the subject of song and story for the past 2,300 years. ...

Pros: hmmmm... none
Cons: TERRIBLE score, bad dialogue, misuse of acting talent, disjointed story

The story of Alexander is a great one. THIS story of Alexander is by far, one of the worst depictions of the past I have seen. When I stop to consider the past 27 years of my life, I cannot come across a bigger flop both in box-office receipts, ...

Pros: Babylon looked awesome
Cons: Everything else sucked

How can I count the ways that Alexander sucked? Pretty much every person in it was miscast, Colin Farrell was especially awful, the music was horrible, the battle scenes were weak, it's boring as hell, and there's too much gay stuff. This review ...

Pros: The Battle Scenes, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, John Kavanaugh, the potential of the project.
Cons: The script, the pace, the lost opportunities for drama and spectacle; Colin Farrell as Alexander.

The Son of the One-Eyed One became the King of One-Eyed Men. But . . . was the One-Eyed One, Zeus or King Philip II of Macedonea? That's the conundrum which propels and thwarts Alexander III in Writer/Director Oliver Stone's ...

Pros: passionate, broad, well-acted
Cons: derivative, preachy, long, boring - too gay for some, not gay enough for others

It's too gay. It's too long. It's too talky. That, I fear, is what most people will take away from this remarkable film - which also happens to be a remarkable mess. Oliver Stone is an unofficial Texan. He loves to wear the big hat. Everything he ...

Pros: Decent acting performances.
Cons: Length, pace, cinematography.

Alexander the Great was one of history’s most compelling figures. Inheriting the throne of his father at the age of 20, young Alexander had ambitions to conquer the known world. His legendary successes were made only that much more fantastic ...

Pros: Colin Farrell didn't do a bad job acting, the fight scenes were good
Cons: lack of fighting, too much boring dialogue, too many boring speeches

And 2 hours and 40 minutes of boring, uninspiring dialogue later, I was waiting for the movie to end by the two hour mark, even with the big fight at the end, Oliver Stone's direction of this movie was flat out horrible. In the months that preceded the ...

Pros: Some stunning visuals. Interesting recreation of past worlds.
Cons: No coherent point of view. Some silly performances.

Work continues at Camp Sisterwood on Bodice Ripper, the post-modern feminist musical version of the Jack the Ripper story that I am attempting to choreograph. I must admit it's not going as well as I might like. I had Bob Mackie run up some ...

Pros: *yawn* Those movie theater seats sure are comfy...
Cons: This movie will put you to sleep.

5 Things I learned from the movie Alexander: 1) All ancient Greeks and Macedonians spoke with Irish accents. 2)Men in the throes of passionate movie love do not kiss or do anything remotely sexy. Instead they give each other simperingly ...

Pros: Enjoyable first half. Farrell, Jolie & Jared Leto
Cons: Plot stops making sense in second half. Too long.

2005 looks like it’s going to be the year of the biopic. Early last month, Ray became the first to be released in New Zealand, and The Aviator finally opened yesterday. Then there’s "Alexander". The funny thing ...

Pros: Not many.
Cons: Another Hollywood film that butchers history.

Alexander by Oliver Stone: Too Long, Too Irish, Too Much. By James Zaworski I just went to see the highly anticipated Oliver Stone film, Alexander. As a historian and anthropologist, I was very eager to see this movie. It had the promise of ...

Pros: Some good battle scenes, nice Egyptian art.
Cons: Emasculating tribute to a previously conquering king.

Let me preface this with a comment toward the homosexuality prevalent throughout this film: I consider myself to be an open and accepting person. BUT, the Alexander portrayed in this film was amoral and flamboyantly homosexual. This bothered me simply ...

Pros: Colin Farrell; great battles and visuals; Vangelis' dramatic score
Cons: A mess; overwrought and overacted; disjointed and poorly told

"Excess in all things leads to the destruction of men," a character cautions in ALEXANDER (Is it Christopher Plummer's Aristotle? Or Anthony Hopkins dithering away in distractingly method old man get up as Ptolemy? Who cares!), and by the blinding light ...

Pros: set design, battle scene choreography, story
Cons: too long, unorganized, underdeveloped character motives

Oliver Stone's "Alexander" is the third major biopic film of the year, following Wolfgang Peterson's Troy and Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur. Troy was lackluster and received a C+ from me, I liked King Arthur for the most part and gave it a respectable B, ...

Pros: the horse
Cons: everything else

This is one of the worst and most disheartening films I've ever seen. And, unlike some bad movies, it didn't even managed to be a fun ride. In any normal film circumstance, a brief summarization of the life of Alexander the Great would suffice to ...