Rotten
By summoning his inner classicist, [director] Stone has made an excruciating disaster for the ages.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
Alexander
The greatest legend of all was real
2004 · 2h 56m · R
Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Directed by
Oliver Stone
Overview
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Director and cast
- Oliver Stone Director
- Colin Farrell as Alexander
- Angelina Jolie as Olympias
- Val Kilmer as Philip
- Jared Leto as Hephaistion
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Cassander
- Anthony Hopkins as Old Ptolemy
- Jessie Kamm as Child Alexander
- Fiona O'Shaughnessy as Nurse
- Connor Paolo as Young Alexander
- Patrick Carroll as Young Hephaistion
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
16%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Though the battles have the blood-and-sinew bravado you expect from Oliver Stone, this three-hour buttnumbathon is hamstrung by a hectoring grandiosity, not new to Stone, and a nod toward caution, which is.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
A lunk-headed train wreck that looks like a tag sale in a 323 B.C. supermarket in old Peking.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Rotten
At a reported cost of $155 million, Alexander qualifies as a super-spectacle in every respect but one -- namely in its neurotic, confused and sexually ambidextrous hero.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten
Sluggish, unsmiling, and almost as limp as the feather fans with which our heroes are gently aerated on their trip to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
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