Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut [Blu-ray]
starring: Féodor Atkine, Brian Blessed, Nick Dunning, Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie
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Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 09/18/2007Run time: 213 minutesRating: Nr
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For better or worse (and in this case, it's mostly for better), Oliver Stone's Alexander Revisited should stand as the definitive version of Stone's much-maligned epic about the great Asian conqueror. Following the DVD release of his previous Director's Cut, Stone offers a video introduction here, explaining why he felt a third and final attempt at refining his film was necessary. Essentially, he's using this opportunity to re-create the "road show" format of the Biblical epics of the 1950s and '60s, with a three-and-a-half-hour running time (with an intermission at the two-hour mark) including 45 minutes of previously unseen footage. Stone has also significantly restructured the film, resulting in substantial (if not exactly redemptive) improvements in its narrative flow. Alexander (played in a torrent of emotions by Colin Farrell) is dying as the film opens, his final moments serving to bookend the film's epic story, which incorporates flashback sequences to flesh out the Macedonian king's back-story involving the turbulent battle of fate between his father, King Philip (Val Kilmer) and his scheming sorceress mother Olympia (Angelina Jolie, ridiculous accent and all), who insists that Alexander is literally a child of the gods.
In Stone's final cut, epic battles remain chaotic (although Alexander's strategy is somewhat easier to follow, with on-screen titles indicating left, right, and center during his army's greatest maneuvers) and the ultra-violent battles are more graphically gory than ever (hence their "unrated" status). The animalistic lovemaking of Alexander and his barbarian bride Roxana (Rosario Dawson) is slightly extended (with Dawson as ravishing as ever), and Stone's additional footage also improves the overall arc of Alexander's relationship with his closest generals and male companions, although his most intimate homosexual encounters remain mostly discreet. As Alexander Revisited makes clear, the film's weaknesses remain unavoidable, but Stone deserves credit for recognizing how a longer running time, and more disciplined narrative structure, would bring Alexander closer to the respect it never earned from critics and filmgoers alike. This is unquestionably a better film than it used to be, leaving us to wonder why it took three separate efforts to shape Alexander into its best possible presentation. --Jeff Shannon
Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 09/18/2007Run time: 213 minutesRating: Nr
Amazon.com:
For better or worse (and in this case, it's mostly for better), Oliver Stone's Alexander Revisited should stand as the definitive version of Stone's much-maligned epic about the great Asian conqueror. Following the DVD release of his previous Director's Cut, Stone offers a video introduction here, explaining why he felt a third and final attempt at refining his film was necessary. Essentially, he's using this opportunity to re-create the "road show" format of the Biblical epics of the 1950s and '60s, with a three-and-a-half-hour running time (with an intermission at the two-hour mark) including 45 minutes of previously unseen footage. Stone has also significantly restructured the film, resulting in substantial (if not exactly redemptive) improvements in its narrative flow. Alexander (played in a torrent of emotions by Colin Farrell) is dying as the film opens, his final moments serving to bookend the film's epic story, which incorporates flashback sequences to flesh out the Macedonian king's back-story involving the turbulent battle of fate between his father, King Philip (Val Kilmer) and his scheming sorceress mother Olympia (Angelina Jolie, ridiculous accent and all), who insists that Alexander is literally a child of the gods.
In Stone's final cut, epic battles remain chaotic (although Alexander's strategy is somewhat easier to follow, with on-screen titles indicating left, right, and center during his army's greatest maneuvers) and the ultra-violent battles are more graphically gory than ever (hence their "unrated" status). The animalistic lovemaking of Alexander and his barbarian bride Roxana (Rosario Dawson) is slightly extended (with Dawson as ravishing as ever), and Stone's additional footage also improves the overall arc of Alexander's relationship with his closest generals and male companions, although his most intimate homosexual encounters remain mostly discreet. As Alexander Revisited makes clear, the film's weaknesses remain unavoidable, but Stone deserves credit for recognizing how a longer running time, and more disciplined narrative structure, would bring Alexander closer to the respect it never earned from critics and filmgoers alike. This is unquestionably a better film than it used to be, leaving us to wonder why it took three separate efforts to shape Alexander into its best possible presentation. --Jeff Shannon
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Boring and stupid.
The good:
Was only ten dollars where i bought it.
King Darius III is cute.
The bad:
Alexander comes off as a pansy. He gets his butt kicked often when he is young and he is just as unimpressive when he is older. The movie bluntly shows alexander as being homosexual. sadly he isn't the tough or rugged guy, he's a submissive like twink (soft squishy boy), which nulls his action hero aura.
The battles are mediocre. Not great, not terribly bad either. ... Read More
Rating: 
- Much different from theatre release
Alexander Revisited is much better than the original theater release.The extra minutes and the re-editing have made it a much better movie.Its still not a great epic film but a very good one.Seeing it in blu ray is a must for the battle scenes!!
Rating: 
- Nothing "GREAT" About This One
Oh, my gosh. This movie was, hands-down, one of the worst "historical" films I have ever seen.It may as well have been titled "I Love Your Kohl-Smudged Eyes" for the seemingly countless close-up shots of Alexander and pretty-boy Hephaistion staring dreamily at each other throughout the entire length of the film.We're supposed to believe that Hephaistion is a warrior!?No one could possibly finish this movie with an accurate idea of who Alexander the Great really was.In fact, a month after watching ... Read More
Rating: - Just a little too long
I really liked this movie and it played in 1080p.I think they it could have been a little shorter.The battle scene was well,i can't put it into words.I can't think of how men fought and died like that.Thousands and thousands i wonder if there still burying people today that fought there.Why were most of these men gay or is this just in the movie.
Rating: 
- Great Portrayal of a Great Historical Figure!
I loved this movie very much, it was a little bit long, but keep in mind to tell a great story like this one you must keep a open mind and sit down and listen.
WARNING SOME SPOLIERS ARE PRESENT
It starts out with the aged Ptolemy I Soter (Anthony Hopkins), a general, childhood friend of Alexander (Colin Farrell) and ancester of the great Cleopatra.He tells the story of Alexander as he remembers it.
He begins to say that Alexander's mother Olympias (Angelina Jolie)was ... Read More
- Boring and stupid.The good:
Was only ten dollars where i bought it.
King Darius III is cute.
The bad:
Alexander comes off as a pansy. He gets his butt kicked often when he is young and he is just as unimpressive when he is older. The movie bluntly shows alexander as being homosexual. sadly he isn't the tough or rugged guy, he's a submissive like twink (soft squishy boy), which nulls his action hero aura.
The battles are mediocre. Not great, not terribly bad either. ... Read More
- Much different from theatre releaseAlexander Revisited is much better than the original theater release.The extra minutes and the re-editing have made it a much better movie.Its still not a great epic film but a very good one.Seeing it in blu ray is a must for the battle scenes!!
- Nothing "GREAT" About This OneOh, my gosh. This movie was, hands-down, one of the worst "historical" films I have ever seen.It may as well have been titled "I Love Your Kohl-Smudged Eyes" for the seemingly countless close-up shots of Alexander and pretty-boy Hephaistion staring dreamily at each other throughout the entire length of the film.We're supposed to believe that Hephaistion is a warrior!?No one could possibly finish this movie with an accurate idea of who Alexander the Great really was.In fact, a month after watching ... Read More
- Just a little too longI really liked this movie and it played in 1080p.I think they it could have been a little shorter.The battle scene was well,i can't put it into words.I can't think of how men fought and died like that.Thousands and thousands i wonder if there still burying people today that fought there.Why were most of these men gay or is this just in the movie.
- Great Portrayal of a Great Historical Figure!I loved this movie very much, it was a little bit long, but keep in mind to tell a great story like this one you must keep a open mind and sit down and listen.
WARNING SOME SPOLIERS ARE PRESENT
It starts out with the aged Ptolemy I Soter (Anthony Hopkins), a general, childhood friend of Alexander (Colin Farrell) and ancester of the great Cleopatra.He tells the story of Alexander as he remembers it.
He begins to say that Alexander's mother Olympias (Angelina Jolie)was ... Read More
