Alexander

    Alexander
    2004

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Colin FarrellAlexander
    • Angelina JolieOlympias
    • Val KilmerPhilip
    • Jared LetoHephaistion
    • Jonathan Rhys MeyersCassander
    • Anthony HopkinsOld Ptolemy
    • Jessie KammYoung Alexander
    • Christopher PlummerAristotle
    • Connor PaoloYoung Alexander
    • Patrick CarrollYoung Hephaistion

    Recommendations

    • 70

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      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

      Makes for a long, lumpy trip with a charismatic guide and some brilliant detours.
    • 60

      The Hollywood Reporter

      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.
    • 60

      Dallas Observer

      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.
    • 50

      Variety

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

      Newsweek

      Sometimes stunning, ultimately stupefying epic .
    • 50

      ReelViews

      By de-mythologizing Alexander, Stone has turned him into an unbelievable individual. We accept great deeds from great people, not from sniveling whiners.
    • 30

      Village Voice

      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.

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