Forget morality, Stone should have hired an editor!

Rating: 1/10 (5 January 2005)

I like Oliver Stone and I thought this would be a ruthless psychological portrayed like his other political films. Oh no.
1. The film is basically raw footage. Long speeches with no arc, repeating themselves in the mouths of different characters. it is torture. There are good moments there, almost many different movies. A good editor could make this into a good movie.
2. Unearned sentimentality. There are no risks, no justification for the complete and utter melodrama that is up on screen. We don't follow or understand the emotion. We don't know why Alex hates his mother, we don't know why certain emotions are even expressed within a certain scene. If this was edited down to focus on one emotional arc, it would help the movie a great deal.
This film had a lot of potential and great promotional material. Unfortunately it went the way of the movie Troy.