Eduruleni Alexander Movie Review: Critics Rating: 1.5 stars, click to give your rating/review,All through the movie, you have Alexander mouthing … They attack, are vanquished, are replaced by new foes. Alexander Stoldt’s review published on Letterboxd: Ein Film, der vor 50 Jahren genau so funktioniert wie jetzt und es in 50 oder 100 Jahren wohl immer noch tun wird. Coming out of tiny Macedonia, Alexander led his armies against the mighty Persian Empire, drove west to Egypt, and finally made his way east to India. He goes after Roxane at first with the gusto of a rugby player, but approaches Hephaistion with a solemnity that borders on the doleful. Overall, Alexander is a disjointed movie, even in the most extended version, but does an admirable job at portraying the history. He spends eight years in battle, taking with him his army, their wives and lovers, their servants and households, in a sort of movable empire. Dawson's Roxane is truly sexy, but Leto's Hephaistion is not allowed to be seen as a male beauty; he looks like a drag queen, with more eyeliner than Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. Hephaistion doesn't even go through the motions of taking a wife; he is always there for Alexander -- but for what? Fascinated by his subject, he has things he urgently wants to say about Alexander, but his urgency outraces his narrative; he gives us provocative notes and sketches but not a final draft. The running narration by Ptolemy (Anthony Hopkins) is a road map through three decades of history, but there are so many names, places and dates that finally we want to ask, please, sir, will this be on the final? Told by Aristotle (Christopher Plummer) where the world ends, he finds it keeps on going, and so he keeps on conquering, defeating the other Greek city states, the Persians and all the other peoples he confronts until he is finally defeated not so much by the rulers of India as by India itself. Even so, at one late point, the movie comes to a jarring halt with the title "Macedonia -- Eight Years Earlier," and we get a flashback to scenes involving Philip that don't feel like a flashback at all, but more like material plucked from its place in the chronology and inserted later to clarify what the filmmakers fear we will not otherwise understand. Colin F makes a great job at portraying Alexander. But the intimate story of Alexander the man is fumbled. The movie became such a target of ridicule that even the late Roger Ebert, who initially gave it a reasonably balanced if ultimately negative review, couldn't resist piling on and named it the very worst film of 2004. I didn't know where to look. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. In what must be the most monumental scene of any career, described in arch slow-motion from about 62 camera angles, Alexander on his faithful steed rears up before a … Stone is a failure. Alexander is one of King Philip's sons. "Alexander" far outreaches "Troy" in ambition, its action scenes seem at least conceivably plausible, and it is based on ideas, not formulas. 12/01/04: A. Newman: It was total crap. The feel of these flashback-linked scenes reminded me a little of the classic BBC TV version of I, Claudius. Alexander was released in 2,445 venues on 24 November 2004 and earned $13.7 million in its opening weekend, ranking sixth in the North American box office and second among the week's new releases. Stone's Alexander has got plenty of oomph in its battle scenes and a strong, ambitious sense of geo-political sweep. Stone is fascinated by two aspects of Alexander: his pan-nationalism and his pan-sexualism. And always smoldering in the shadows is Hephaistion (Jared Leto), his closest friend since childhood. Alexander Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda) is a scrappy political upstart who joins George Washington (Christopher Jackson) in the fight for US independence and becomes one … While we can at least process the problems in his marriage with Roxane (he lost interest), we are left baffled by his tangled relationship with his mother. By Joe Lozito "Alexander" Grates. I have always admired Oliver Stone's courage in taking on big, challenging films, and his gift for marrying action and ideas. The parts don't fit together in "Alexander." He dies at 32. Alexander McQueen was a bold, genius designer. We welcome the scenes of battle, pomp and circumstance because at least for a time we are free of sociopolitical concepts and the endless narration of Ptolemy the historian, who functions here like the Bill Kurtis of antiquity ("No tyrant ever gave back so much ..."). This movie isn't. 'Alexander Revisited' in high-def includes most of the extras that appeared on each of the film's previous releases on DVD -- in fact, the only "missing" supplements are the commentaries that were recorded for the theatrical and director's cuts of the film. He was also a tortured soul. Even though the movie's battle scenes are impressive and sometimes brilliant, Alexander's opponents have the human dimension of video-game figures. Alexander petulantly quarrels with Jolie, who is forever knowingly allowing snakes to slither over her arms, and letting those great sensuously chapped lips pout with Machiavellian malice. Alexander and Ptolemy both talk a lot about incorporating conquered peoples into the expanding empire. Alexander orders the doctor to be executed. She hates Philip, and no wonder, for he is a drunken lout, but are her hopes for Alexander entirely geopolitical? Their clothes, languages, foods and customs are embraced, we hear, but the movie spends more energy telling us this than showing us. Here is an ambitious and sincere film that fails to find a focus for its elusive subject. They have looks like the beginning of a love scene before it fades out, and the rest of the time, they hug a lot. Anyone who's seen Oliver Stone's wonderfully over-the-top "JFK" already knows the director's fatal flaw: he just doesn't know when to quit. When Alexander finally marries his Asian queen (a dull and perfunctorily exotic role here for Rosario Dawson) there is a truly ridiculous wedding night scene in which he must coax and subdue her with his warrior-lover's passion. So it was a sign that something had gone seriously wrong with Oliver Stone's long, gaudy, and curiously empty new biopic about Alexander when audiences at both showings I attended greeted the movie with snickering and obvious boredom. This is one of the most scary performances currently to be seen in the cinema: she is like Anthony Perkins' mom in Psycho. Alexander Stoldt’s review published on Letterboxd: Verrückte koreanische Version von Firefly mit animeähnlichen Raumschiff Verfolgungsjagten und Kämpfen. Then gets gum in his hair. Alexander (Colin Farrell) is the son of Philip of Macedonia (Val Kilmer) and Queen Olympias (Angelina Jolie). Whatever else you say about the career of Alexander the Great—and classicists, at least, say quite a lot—it was neither funny nor dull. Everything's narrated in languid flashback by Ptolemy as a worldly, sun-weathered old man played by Anthony Hopkins, dictating his memoirs in the Mediterranean sun and brooding on the lost glories of youth and victory. Stone establishes the trauma of Alexander's early boyhood, having the poison of conspiratorial politics poured into his ear by his scheming mother, and then leapfrogs Philip's death to Alexander's own eminence as the young king and makes the great cavalry charge at Gaugamela and the defeat of the Persian army the big and very long setpiece for the movie's opening act. It is, of course, a serious understatement to say that Alexander Cooper is not having a great day. … Unlike the mealy-mouthed Troy, Stone's movie does at least tackle the nature of male love, and has the child Alexander with his boisterous fellows being taught by Aristotle that these relationships are acceptable when their intimacy transmits and promotes noble ideals. it could have, no should have, been better: 12/01/04 : Naka "Gay thing" or no gay thing, this movie SUCKS UTTERLY. Movie Review. The battle concludes with a terrific tableau depicting a fateful asymmetry: Alexander's horse rearing up in profile, vainly challenging the vast trumpeting beast. Then face-plants in the grass. Upon closing on 1 February 2005, the film grossed $34.3 million domestically and $133 million overseas for a worldwide total of $167.3 million. ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’: Film Review Burhan Qurbani's lengthy, well-crafted but curiously weightless update of Alfred Döblin's classic novel of masculine criminal crisis. Alexander imbibes these verities from Aristotle at the same time as he hears his vision of a Hellenic army encircling the known world. Actors: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Anthony Hopkins, Jared Leto. Based on a $155 million production budget, as well as additional marketing costs, the film was a box office bomb, with projected losses of as much as $71 million. But it remains unclear if Alexander has united those peoples or simply conquered them, and his sexuality is made murky by the film's shyness about gay sex and its ambiguity about Alexander's relationships with his "barbarian" bride and his tigress mother. He takes the Asian bride Roxane (Rosario Dawson) instead of choosing a nice Greek girl as his advisers recommend. It's clear enough that Alexander loves Hephaistion and has married Roxane as a political gesture. In the marital bed, Farrell hisses and bears his fangs like a jungle cat. Fortune favours the bold, as the movie never ceases to remind us, and fortune has favoured Stone with some success here. Die unglaublich perfekt fotografierten Schwarz-Weiß Bilder, perfekt kadriert, sind einfach zeitlos und jedes Einzelne könne man sich als Gemälde auf hängen. Yet "Troy" tells a story that has some structure and clarity, and those are precisely the qualities that "Alexander" lacks. Interestingly, his formidable mother Olympia, played by Angelina Jolie, speaks as if she runs an Italian restaurant. Alexander the person was great. This was comic actor Pierre Richard's second appearance [citation needed] on film, playing a secondary role toward the end of the plot. Angelina Jolie seems so young and sexy as Olympias, especially in scenes involving Alexander, that we wonder if she will start raiding cradles instead of tombs. Stone contrives a watchable debacle for Alexander in the far eastern forests in which mounted on his steed he challenges an Indian warrior atop an elephant. Watch Fanny and Alexander on BFI Player (UK only): https://player... Mark reviews Bergman’s magisterial and sumptuous portrait of a 20th-century Swedish family. The Battle scenes are excellent, considering that it was a Hollywood production and intended for entertainment and not for education. Transitions and segues are missing, and we seem to be looking at disconnected parts from a much larger whole: two wholes, perhaps, one involving Alexander's military and political careers, and the other his confused emotional life. The camera looks back at Hephaistion's face, immobile in death, glassy-eyed and faintly slack-jawed as if someone had snuck in and hit him over the head with a frying pan. The film doesn't feel at ease with itself. (In Venice, Toronto Film Festivals.) To mention Wolfgang Petersen's "Troy," the early-2004 epic about Grecian myth, is to make a comparison necessary. This is how a historical movie should be made. As a boy, he sees his drunken father all but rape his mother, who for her part insists Alexander's actual father is Zeus, but doesn't give details. Farrell is a fine actor, but on a human scale; he's not cut out for philosopher-king. Accuracy neatly balanced with entertainment value. Alexander seems to be following that tradition to the extent that Stone (and perhaps the MPAA production code) will permit it. In that case it is a miscalculation by Stone to make Hephaistion into a pouting sideline figure who specializes in significant glances the significance of which the movie does not explore, while making Roxane into such an exciting hellion that we're disappointed Alexander doesn't let us spend more time with her, even if he doesn't want to. It's a contrast to the cringe-making final speech that a tearful Alexander must give at the bedside of his gravely ill friend Hephaistion, defiantly proclaiming his vision of a noble empire in which conquered peoples are brought together and educated in Hellenic values. Their clothes, languages, foods and customs are embraced, we hear, but the movie spends more energy telling us this than showing us. This movie has good general themes (family, being supportive, appreciating the good things even in a bad day), but as other parents mentioned, there are some things that are just downright inappropriate for kids. Alexander and Ptolemy both talk a lot about incorporating conquered peoples into the expanding empire. Alexander Review. Nor is he convincing as a conqueror. The acting coach seems to get off lightly. She regards him in a way Roxane never does, and one of the reasons for the "Eight Years Earlier" flashback is to get her back into the film after a too lengthy absence. Did he improv these touches? The director's trimmed the movie down once again, feeling the previous version added back too much. As things work out, Philip is murdered, and Alexander rules Macedonia. Die Crew, um die es sich dreht und die natürlich über eine vermeidliche Superwaffe in Form eines kleinen Kindes stolpert, welches langsam zum Teil der Crew und Familie wird, wächst einen irgendwie wirklich ans Herz. If there is a message here for modern audiences doubting the Pax Americana in the Persian Gulf, it is annulled by an awful clunk of bathos. All these re-edits and tweaks have resulted in a stronger film - even if it is still fundamentally flawed. Still a very young man, he sets out to conquer the known world. Very Happy Alexander (French: Alexandre le bienheureux, "Blissful Alexander") is a 1968 French comedy film, directed by Yves Robert, starring Philippe Noiret, Marlène Jobert and Françoise Brion. Rated R Although some aspects of Oliver Stone's sword-and-sandals epic are worthy of mention (and even praise), they are dwarfed by the missteps and examples of … Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. He is borne away from the field of battle on his shield, wounded but not vanquished. This doc offers opportunities to watch him work on his incredible creations. He was not alone in that. Alexander – review Oliver Stone's Alexander has got plenty of oomph in its battle scenes and a strong, ambitious sense of geo-political sweep. It is here that Stone unveils his big storytelling flourish: with Alexander stranded on his eastern expedition, he loops the narrative back to Alexander's beardless youth and tells the story of Philip's assassination, Alexander's agonised acceptance of his own fate and his realisation that his mother was almost certainly behind a murder designed to ensure his succession. It says too much, and yet leaves too much unsaid. The soldier's masculine brotherhood and its closed world of secret fears and private affections has long been a favourite theme for Oliver Stone. for violence and some sexuality/nudity, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, Four Quick Tips to Help You Enter the No Malice Film Contest, Steven Yeun Breathes Life into the Animated Superhero Series Invincible, SXSW 2021: Lily Topples the World, Subjects of Desire, The Hunt for Planet B, Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal. He is, in Stone's version, remarkably open-minded for a tyrant. There is no contradiction between these two attributes of manhood: warlike and tender. Alexander (2004) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Also an answer to the reviewer called "Christo": For someone who supposedly studied Alexander for 2 … It sounds like a never-ending lover's tiff and these scenes ignite a flame of silliness and absurdity in the film which never seems to go out. A movie review by James Berardinelli To sum up Alexander in three words, I would choose the following: three-hour miscalculation. Macedonia's Alexander the Great had conquered most of the known world by the time he was 25; at the time of his death at the age of 32 in 323 BC, he presided over a vast empire stretching across Central Asia. The facts are quickly summarized. Read Common Sense Media's Alexander (2005) review, age rating, and parents guide. This movie concentrated on those eight years of battles, as well as his relationship with his boyhood friend and battle mate, Hephaistion (Jared Leto). "Alexander" is not a success, but it is ambitious and risky, and incapable of the inanities of "Troy." One needs to sense a certain madness in a colossus; George C. Scott brought it to Patton, Peter O'Toole brought it to Lawrence, Klaus Kinski to Fitzcarraldo, Mel Gibson had it as William Wallace, Willem Dafoe had it in Stone's "Platoon," but Farrell seems too reasonable, too much of ordinary scale, to drive men to the ends of the world with his unbending will. The narration by the elderly version of Ptolemy (Anthony Hopkins), one of Alexander's trusted aides, felt like something tacked on to help guide viewers who might … The story is an epic that is as daring and ambitious as its subject, a relentless conqueror who by the age of 32 had amassed the greatest empire the world had ever seen. But the intimate story of Alexander the man is fumbled, he soldier's masculine brotherhood and its closed world of secret fears and private affections has long been a favourite theme for. With a mommie dearest like Angie, you too would rather hazard everything in battle rather than come in for your tea. The blood and glory of the battle scenes always look happier than the cockpit of personal passion. Our hero absolutely outclasses those wimpy beta-males of military history: Achilles, Caesar, Napoleon - or indeed Sherman, Patton and Schwarzkopf. Fortunately, there's lots of footage that provides bits of insight, which is supplemented by interviews with family, friends and If Stone is not willing to make Hephaistion at least potentially as erotic a character as Roxane, he is not really engaging the logic of the story. This chest-beating hunk of a movie gives him the broadest possible shoulders on which to carry it. All right, so they have great sex -- once. But the movie only achieves power and narrative muscle tone once Alexander's armies have ventured further east, become more afraid and careworn, finally getting bogged down in the forests of India where Alexander looks like the classical world's answer to Conrad's Mr Kurtz. The film has been released on DVD on 4 May 2004. If anyone is allowed to have dyed blond hair, snowy white tunics, intense relationships with other men, and a simply impossible mother - well, it is this highly-strung hombre. Yuk. Getting out of bed the day before his 12th birthday, Alexander slips on a skateboard. But we don't get a sense of the humans on the other side. Oliver Stone's Alexander has got plenty of oomph in its battle scenes and a strong, ambitious sense of geo-political sweep. A friend takes a picture of him and then uses a new app he’s found to fuse Alexander’s head onto the bodies of bikini girls—images that go viral all over school. ‘Collective’ Review: Exposé of Romanian Corruption Has Universal Resonance Reviewed at Margutta Digital Int'l, Rome, Aug. 23, 2019. He shows him trying to unite many peoples under one throne while remaining equally inclusive with his choices of lovers. Very oddly, however, to cover any anomaly, Stone gets Val Kilmer playing his father King Philip to speak with an Irish accent as well, and Jared Leto has to do the same thing playing Alexander's friend Hephaistion. This movie portrayed Alexander as a whiny brat and didn't show his military genius: 12/02/04: Punker: omg this sucked nutz: 12/02/04: Al Guy: I knew this was a bad idea. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Alexander (2004) The story is about a Macedonian boy who grows up and becomes the great warrior and conqueror of all times, Alexander the Great. Alexander (2004) Movie Review Summary. When the mighty fall, it is from a greater height. So it was with Alexander the Great, and so it is with Oliver Stone's "Alexander." Check out our Alexander: The Ultimate Cut Blu-ray review to find out how this most recent cut of the film stands up against the three prior editions. The battles in India are masterful, with Alexander's men and horses terrified by war elephants, and an earlier battle against the Persians at Gaugamela has scope and grandeur. As for Alexander's sex life with Roxane, it is not surprising but nevertheless worthy of notice that we see a great deal more of her body than Hephaistion's, and observe them during a sex scene that begins with her fighting him off and ends with them engaged in the kind of unbridled passion where you hope nobody gets hurt. Perhaps the narration is supposed to bridge gaps in the disjointed narrative. There are many scenes in which he debates strategy and goals with the members of his army, something we cannot easily imagine Philip (or Gen. Patton) doing. But the intimate story of Alexander the man … Then we learn that three years pass, and she provides no male heir, although for all we see of them together, the fault may be Zeus's. Alexander grows to be a sensitive, but fiercely ambitious, visionary youth; Colin Farrell plays him with his natural Irish accent rather than all-American or Bardspeak Brit. Young Alexander impresses his father by taming an intractable horse, but both mother and son are banished from the kingdom, Olympias advising her son to seize the throne before Philip has him murdered. It looks as if there might be real men on the ground, instead of the digital ants in "Troy." Of other actors Stone has worked with, perhaps Woody Harrelson has the strange light in his eyes that the role requires. The ambiguities are not assisted by Colin Farrell's less than wholehearted embrace of his bisexuality. With a soldier's misplaced loyalty, Stone protects Alexander from the character-building experiences of failure. 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