Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut [Blu-ray]
starring: Féodor Atkine, Brian Blessed, Nick Dunning, Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie
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Warner Brothers Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut (Unrated) (Blu-ray)
Now available is an all new and completely unrated version of Oliver Stone's incredible epic film, loaded with nearly 40 minutes of additional never-before-seen footage, that takes the film to a new level of realism and intensity. Restructured and expanded into two acts with one intermission, Oliver Stone's vision is delivered the way he originally conceived and intended. With the new, unrated and graphic battle scenes and unadulterated sensuality, it's the movie you couldn't see in theatres, now available on DVD for the very first time!
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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
Warner Brothers Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut (Unrated) (Blu-ray)
Now available is an all new and completely unrated version of Oliver Stone's incredible epic film, loaded with nearly 40 minutes of additional never-before-seen footage, that takes the film to a new level of realism and intensity. Restructured and expanded into two acts with one intermission, Oliver Stone's vision is delivered the way he originally conceived and intended. With the new, unrated and graphic battle scenes and unadulterated sensuality, it's the movie you couldn't see in theatres, now available on DVD for the very first time!
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: - SKANDER
AS A HISTORY EPIC LOVER, I LIKE THIS MOVIE.ALSO I AM INTERESTED IN THE LIFE STORY OF ALEXANDER.BUT THIS CUT IS NOT SO DIFFERENT FROM THE FIRST CUT.I HAD EXPECTED MORE THAN THIS.YET THIS IS A GOOD MOVIE TO SHOW US THE PRIVATE AND POLITICAL LIFE OF ALEXANDER (IN THE EASTERN WORLD WE CALL HIM "SKANDER").
Rating: 
- Take 3.
This is the version of "Alexander" that should have been released in theaters.
Like the director's cut of "Troy", "Alexander Revisited" is long, steamy, epic, dirty, colorful and mesmerizing. Oliver Stone's reworking of the film's timeline adds weight to the story, and lets Colin Farrell come off more as a complex man, and less of the whining mama's boy that he was in the theatrical cut.
Of course there's no way a film about a gay soldier with an Oedipus complex could ... Read More
Rating: 
- 2 stars out of 4
The Bottom Line:
Too long to function as high camp and too silly to be watched with a straight face (Angelina Jolie's accent! Colin Farrell's haircut!), Alexander's only real success is to prove that the infamous 1963 version of Cleopatra didn't end big-budget sword and sandals fiascos.
Rating: 
- Terribly Disappointing
The title of my review says it all: I was so disappointed by this film. You would think that a great mind like Oliver Stone's would do something special with the story of one of history's most fascinating, least understood characters, but instead this movie is one convoluted mess. It wastes many talented actors (Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Christopher Plummer, need I go on?) and mis-casts Colin Ferrell in a role that proves once and for all that the guy just can not act. The film ... Read More
Rating: - Ridley Scott is a great Director.......this is a good film
Alexander was released to theaters where it didn't do as well as it could of. This film is really a history buff's kind of movie. Yes, it has action, big names (Farrell, Jolie, Hopkins, and Kilmer) and is based on a lot of historical fact.I think the homosexual relationships and the movies length and pacing are what killed it at the theater, which is what I have gathered from others when I have asked them about what they thought of it.
Personally, I have no problem with the relationships ... Read More
- SKANDERAS A HISTORY EPIC LOVER, I LIKE THIS MOVIE.ALSO I AM INTERESTED IN THE LIFE STORY OF ALEXANDER.BUT THIS CUT IS NOT SO DIFFERENT FROM THE FIRST CUT.I HAD EXPECTED MORE THAN THIS.YET THIS IS A GOOD MOVIE TO SHOW US THE PRIVATE AND POLITICAL LIFE OF ALEXANDER (IN THE EASTERN WORLD WE CALL HIM "SKANDER").
- Take 3.This is the version of "Alexander" that should have been released in theaters.
Like the director's cut of "Troy", "Alexander Revisited" is long, steamy, epic, dirty, colorful and mesmerizing. Oliver Stone's reworking of the film's timeline adds weight to the story, and lets Colin Farrell come off more as a complex man, and less of the whining mama's boy that he was in the theatrical cut.
Of course there's no way a film about a gay soldier with an Oedipus complex could ... Read More
- 2 stars out of 4The Bottom Line:
Too long to function as high camp and too silly to be watched with a straight face (Angelina Jolie's accent! Colin Farrell's haircut!), Alexander's only real success is to prove that the infamous 1963 version of Cleopatra didn't end big-budget sword and sandals fiascos.
- Terribly DisappointingThe title of my review says it all: I was so disappointed by this film. You would think that a great mind like Oliver Stone's would do something special with the story of one of history's most fascinating, least understood characters, but instead this movie is one convoluted mess. It wastes many talented actors (Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Christopher Plummer, need I go on?) and mis-casts Colin Ferrell in a role that proves once and for all that the guy just can not act. The film ... Read More
- Ridley Scott is a great Director.......this is a good filmAlexander was released to theaters where it didn't do as well as it could of. This film is really a history buff's kind of movie. Yes, it has action, big names (Farrell, Jolie, Hopkins, and Kilmer) and is based on a lot of historical fact.I think the homosexual relationships and the movies length and pacing are what killed it at the theater, which is what I have gathered from others when I have asked them about what they thought of it.
Personally, I have no problem with the relationships ... Read More
