Cast: Colin Farrell (Alexander), Angelina Jolie (Olympias), Anthony Hopkins (Old Ptolemy), Connor Paolo (Young Alexander)
For complete cast info, see IMDb's Alexander page.
Since the story interests me, the cast was very well done (in spite of the fact that Angelina Jolie is only a couple years older than Colin Farrell), Oliver Stone was directing, and everything else seemed to be perfectly aligned, I had high hopes for Alexander. Apparently, that wasn't wise.
Seeing this movie on Thanksgiving before going over to dinner was not the best idea, either. Before we even touched food, we were already tired. Alexander is a LONG movie (even for those in the almost 3 hour range, it dragged).
They seemed to spend too much time on things that meant little to the story and not enough on some of the key interesting parts of the story. I definitely wished we'd waited till it was on DVD. Perhaps we could have fast-forwarded through the boring parts. And if not, we could have at least been multi-tasking.
Oliver Stone really disappointed me. He had amazing actors and could have done so much with a movie about Alexander. Instead, it seemed like a wasted 3 hours.
Grade: C-
Labels: 2004, action, adventure, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Colin Farrell, drama, movie, war
Reviewed by Kat at the 1:40 PM show | 0 screams