Mad Movie Musings: Alexander (Revisited The Final Cut version)

Rating: 9/10 (12 March 2017)

Stone's fever dream of the Ancient World. If there was ever a Cecil B. DeMille acid trip-fueled epic, it would look like this, and I mean that as a compliment (of course)! A symbolic stew of dust and blood, snakes and eagles, the sun and the moon, Angelina's eyes and Colin's hair, it's all knitted into the kaleidoscopic fabric of this audacious pageant. The depiction of the Battle of the Hydaspes is a psychedelic tour-de-force of majestic grit and gore in and of itself. A tale of messy passions and haunting myths. "Fortune favors the bold". Indeed.
(I'm an enthusiast, not a critic. Thanks for reading.)