Alexander Not So 'Great'

Rating: 1/10 (25 November 2004)

If movies producers want to ensure that their movie bombs then all they have to do is cast Angelina Jolie(pillow lips). Here she plays Alex's mother to Collin Farrels Alexander and as they are both the approximate same age it begs the question how old was she when she produced IL' Alex . Val Kilmer,as the one eyed Phillip and Al's father, has a high old time getting drunk and smacking everyone in the head .Kinda like Jim Morrison . As this dreck cost the studios in excess of $200,000,000, to produce and conventional wisdom says a film has to gross two and a half times its negative budget to break even this film will certainly fail financially as well as artistically . Stalled the opening for Oscar consideration my ass . It was stalled because the studio knew they had a tactical nuclear weapon on their hands(bomb) . I have suspected for some time that Oliver Stone was a one trick pony,Platoon, and he told that story . Some of the battle scenes are alright but the dialouge stinks to high heaven" What have I done to make you hate me so ? " Spoken by Jolie as Al's mom with a totally incomprehensible accent that may be Polish or ? Alex's story was not ripe for the telling . Perhaps a director of greater vision could have pulled this off Robert Altman for instance but in Stone's hands it just sort of lays there and does nothing . zero of 5 stars for 'Alexander'