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(1 - 45) of 45 OFCS Rating: 14% Rotten Page   1   "By the time its three hours are over, you will feel as exhausted as Alexander at the end of his epic campaign - but not as enriched."   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel "An overview of an intensely passionate life as few film-makers could bring it to the screen."   european-films.net   Boyd van Hoeij D+ "It’s been five years since Stone helmed a feature film, and the question must be asked: has anybody missed him?"   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf C- "Stone doesn't present characters that the audience can believe in, even for one moment, as representative of their historic roles."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Eventually, the movie's psychologizing of Alexander's motives turns tedious."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1.5/4 "Much like the title character himself, this is an endeavor that strives for greatness but is too burdened by its own ego to live out the full potential."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 1/4 "...it seems fairly clear that [Alexander's] life just isn't interesting enough to warrant an entire movie (particularly one that runs almost three hours)."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1/4 "An enormous cinematic mess. Alexander is not so much mind-numbingly boring as it is intriguingly nonsensical."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 2.5/4 "This half-cocked creation is ostensibly about the Macedonian king but doubles as an allegory for both George W. Bush’s political career and Stone’s own struggle with history."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez D+ "Oliver Stone doesn't just create trainwrecks. He knocks the train off the rails, sets it on fire, then kills every person onboard. (And takes three hours to do it.)"   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 0.5/4 "As if Stone was trying to one-up the legendary Great himself by going all over the map, he reaches for so much and dies so early."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress D "It is such a majestic disaster, that I have a bizarre sort of affection for it, like for a weirdly deformed child, maybe."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "...a boorish and bloated costume epic that has all the exciting appeal of a prolonged high school social studies lesson during the thankless hazy days of summer"   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D+ "Pretty much a mess, an alternately turgid and florid movie that feels like a drugged-out version of a Cecil B. DeMille epic."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/5 "Alexander goes on far too long, and Colin Farrell as the military leader just doesn't live up to the high praise given him in the opening scenes."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 13/100 "An unmitigated disaster, Oliver Stone's sprawling Alexander is an unbearable 173 minute alternative to Chinese water torture."   Film and Felt   Gabe Leibowitz 2/4 "Although some aspects of Oliver Stone's sword-and-sandals epic are worthy of mention (and even praise), they are dwarfed by the missteps and examples of bad judgment."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/4 "little more than a well-mounted, but hollow history lesson that is the very antithesis of what its means to be bold"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 1/5 "Oliver Stone's take on the life of Alexander the Great is overblown, underdeveloped and one of the worst films of 2004."   Netflix   James Rocchi 2/4 "Steeped in an all-consuming aura of audacious indulgence."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 3.5/4 "It occasionally fumbles and it sometimes feels downright hokey, but it cumulatively earns a feeling of gravity and reverence that fully justifies its extended running time."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman D+ "Alexander the Great will have to wait for another time and another director before justice can fully be achieved"   Old School Reviews   John A. Nesbit 5/10 "Alexander limps along from one fancy set to another."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 3/4 "'Como obra cinematográfica, no es la pésima cinta que han destrozado. Es la simple interpretación de un talentoso cineasta sobre la vida de una leyenda de la humanidad' "   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 0/5 "There’s nothing that quite compares to the pain of passing a kidney stone... except perhaps Oliver Stone’s Alexander."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C+ "Ironically, there is little in Oliver Stone's dream project that marks it as an Oliver Stone film"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 1/4 "Makes you wonder where [Alexander] found the time, what with all the moments of self-doubt and blubbering—oh, the endless blubbering."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 6/10 " I would rather be bored learning about the history of Alexander the Great than enthralled by the exploits of Spider Man. Your mileage may vary."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 1/4 "Doesn't earn the right to be three hours long"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "[A] disaster of a film, three hours of butt-numbing tedium punctuated by moments of hilarious high camp."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1.5/4 "I have a confession to make: I gave up on this movie. By the time the second hour was up, I realized that I was no longer paying attention."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan D "A horrendously bad movie, a genuine 40-car pile-up of literally epic proportions, a three-way head-on collision of bad writing, bad acting, and bad direction."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2/5 "Oliver Stone revela uma decepcionante tendência para o melodrama."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1.5/5 "Maybe it's just me, but it seems like a movie celebrating the life of the greatest military conqueror the world has ever known should feature a bit more conquering."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2/5 "There is a great movie buried in this cacophonous mess"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 1/5 "This oracular piece of hero-worship is perhaps the squarest film yet from this once-hip director."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D "A great thunderous wreck, loud as a gong and just as hollow."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux D+ "One of those magnificent train wrecks of a movie in which the director's vision drowns in a torrent of his own unbridled excess."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B- " [Alexander] is too long and lacks the action needed to sustain the attention required."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 1.5/5 "You could literally chop Alexander up into six 30-minute blocks, reassemble it at random, and the movie would make the exact same amount of sense (i.e. none). "   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg 1/5 "A big misfire, a big bore, and a big fat waste of time."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 3/10 "An overstuffed Thanksgiving turkey: a tedious, uninspiring, repetitious historical epic filled with sappy symbolism and overt homosexuality"   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 1/4 "Mel Gibson has his 33-year-old martyr with which to identify, now Oliver Stone has a 33-year-old-minus-one-month one of his own."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 2/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito Read review   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr.  (1 - 45) of 45 OFCS Rating: 14% Rotten Page   1