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Alexander
Starring: Colin Farrell Directed by: Oliver Stone Rated R or Unrated Original Release Year: 2004 Genre: Action/Drama Synopsis: Alexander the Great is considered one of the greatest leaders in world history. This film follows him from birth till death and everything in between. My Thoughts: When it says "everything in between"...they mean EVERYTHING. Scorecard Acting- Colin Farrell stars as Alexander the Great, in perhaps one of his better performances of his career, but sadly, this was still a bad performance. There was nothing exciting about Colin Farrell as Alexander, and was for the most part dull. Anthony Hopkins as Ptolemy was the only good thing about the acting in this film, and Ptolemy was just the narrator. With an all-star cast like this film, the overall acting was just plain bad. Lets list the actors in this film. Colin Farrell, Rosario Dawson, Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto, Val Kilmer, John Rhys-Meyers and Anthony Hopkins. You would think with some of those BIG name actors, someone could pull off a good performance, sadly it wasn't to be true. (0) Direction- Oliver Stone has been known for making "Epic" movies that fail miserably. This was no different. This had the big movie feel, but that's it. The direction was "piss poor" at best, there was no real flow to the movie, the entire story shook badly just because it jumped around a little and didn't really have a steady story to follow. (0) Story- Alexander the Great has done some amazing things in his life, this film showed one or two of them. He was an incredible leader, this film briefly showed that he was a leader. He was a very charismatic presence, this film he wasn't anywhere near that, he was more of a worried child than anything else. I don't understand how someone can screw up one of the greatest figures in world history, but they did it. (0) Expectations- I was expecting this movie to be an epic movie with tons of action and a great story to follow. It wasn't either. There was something "Epic" about this movie, it was an "Epic Disaster". (0) Boring?- I saw the original release at 175 minutes and it was the most boring movie I had to sit through, it was a task to finish it, and no movie should be like that. The directors cut was made into 167 minutes, and I still don't understand how cutting 8 minutes is supposed to make any movie better. This movie was too boring, if I could give negative ratings, this category would get one. (0) Final Score: DUNG!!!! 0 out of 5 Final Thoughts: There was NOTHING I liked about this movie. It was a task to watch most of the movie. There were a few scenes that were uncomfortable and most of the scenes were just too bad to watch. I sat through this entire movie with my good friend Jim, and we were both about to gouge our eyes out before this movie was over. I understand why this movie was a complete failure in the US only making about 40 million while it cost 150 million, sadly internationally it made its money back. Don't see this movie.
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