Seriously people, buy the revisited version

Rating: 10/10 (30 January 2013)

Hollywood is long been littered with films that have been savagely torn apart by their sponsoring film studios, forever ruining them and in their glory of what they could've been. That's what happened to Once Upon a Time in America, that's what happened to Blade Runner, and that's definitely what happened with Alexander.
Seriously people, but the revisited version
I'm not saying this movie doesn't have a few flaws (sure, Colin Farrell wasn't the best choice for Alexander; it was weird seeing Angelina Jolie, only a year older than Farrell, portray his mother; and some of the monologues were campy and dragged on), but Alexander Revisited (The Final Cut), the movie that Oliver Stone intended to make and release, is truly "the whole magnificent vision."
If you watch the version that was released in theaters, or even the first "director's cut", then yes, I can see full well your stern disposition on the film. However, (history lesson here), as with Blade Runner & Once Upon a Time in America (two other films savagely mutilated by Warner Bros.), the film was dramatically cut and altered from it's original form to coincide with necessary run times that the studio demanded the film to be, or to better accustom an unimaginative and generic mainstream media. With Alexander: Revisited, the film is left to it's original intended form from director Oliver Stone, and feels like a significantly more complete and all-around extraordinary films. It is severely underrated and truly gives you the whole scope, the whole dream and vision of Alexander's life and what his empire was, and was dreamed to be. It's magnificent.
So seriously people, buy the Revisited version. You won't regret it.
10 out of 10