An Interesting Film

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2006)

I was looking forward to watching Alexander when it was released on the big screen, but unfortunately, my friends didn't want to see it because they heard such bad reviews on Alexander, so I went and saw it myself. I was really impressed on the magnitude of this movie. At 175 minutes, it was a long ride but I thought an interesting one. When I heard that Oliver Stone was releasing a Director's Cut on DVD. I was really looking forward to it. In Australia the Director's Cut version is only available on DVD, lucky I saw the Theatrical Version on the big screen.
I must admit, I really prefer the Theatrical Version over the Director's Cut. The Theatrical Version actually made more sense than the Director's Cut. I always assumed that Director's Cuts on film are longer, but this was 8 minutes shorter. I really didn't like the Director's Cut, it seemed disjointed and actually did not make sense.
I am a huge fan of Oliver Stone's, but I have to say that this is a good movie, not great. The performances in the movie are almost top-rate. The highlight performance on this movie was Angelina Jolie, gorgeous (as always), and of course got the accent right for the role of Olympias. Colin Farrell is decent as Alexander, but unfortunately, the Irish accent did not help with his performance. But unfortunately, there was one bad performance from one great actor. Val Kilmer gives the worst performance of his career as Alexander's father Phillip.
All in all, Alexander had great visuals, a brilliant music score by Vangelis, some great actors and the result all in all a good movie.
The Theatrical Cut 8/10
The Director's Cut 5/10
Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut 10/10
The Ultimate Cut 9/10