Alexander (Two-Disc Special Edition) |  | Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  657 reviews
Sales Rank: 34617
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 175 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD38936D
ISBN: 0790795191
UPC: 085393893620
EAN: 9780790795195
ASIN: B0009PLLO0
Theatrical Release Date: November 24, 2004
Release Date: August 2, 2005
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For better or worse (and in this case, it's mostly for better), Oliver Stone's Alexander Revisited should stand as the definitive version of Stone's much-maligned epic about the great Asian conqueror. Following the DVD release of his previous Director's Cut, Stone offers a video introduction here, explaining why he felt a third and final attempt at refining his film was necessary. Essentially, he's using this opportunity to re-create the "road show" format of the Biblical epics of the 1950s and '60s, with a three-and-a-half-hour running time (with an intermission at the two-hour mark) including 45 minutes of previously unseen footage. Stone has also significantly restructured the film, resulting in substantial (if not exactly redemptive) improvements in its narrative flow. Alexander (played in a torrent of emotions by Colin Farrell) is dying as the film opens, his final moments serving to bookend the film's epic story, which incorporates flashback sequences to flesh out the Macedonian king's back-story involving the turbulent battle of fate between his father, King Philip (Val Kilmer) and his scheming sorceress mother Olympia (Angelina Jolie, ridiculous accent and all), who insists that Alexander is literally a child of the gods. In Stone's final cut, epic battles remain chaotic (although Alexander's strategy is somewhat easier to follow, with on-screen titles indicating left, right, and center during his army's greatest maneuvers) and the ultra-violent battles are more graphically gory than ever (hence their "unrated" status). The animalistic lovemaking of Alexander and his barbarian bride Roxana (Rosario Dawson) is slightly extended (with Dawson as ravishing as ever), and Stone's additional footage also improves the overall arc of Alexander's relationship with his closest generals and male companions, although his most intimate homosexual encounters remain mostly discreet. As Alexander Revisited makes clear, the film's weaknesses remain unavoidable, but Stone deserves credit for recognizing how a longer running time, and more disciplined narrative structure, would bring Alexander closer to the respect it never earned from critics and filmgoers alike. This is unquestionably a better film than it used to be, leaving us to wonder why it took three separate efforts to shape Alexander into its best possible presentation. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
CONQUERING 90% ON THE KNOWN WORLD BY THE AGE OF 25, ALEXANDER THE GREAT LED HIS ARMIES THROUGH 22,000 MILES OF SIEGES & CONQUESTS IN JUST 8 YEARS. THE WORLD WE KNOW TODAY MIGHT NEVERBEEN IF NOT FOR ALEXANDER'S BLOODY, YET UNIFYING, CONQUEST.
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 final version, good January 30, 2010
Dominic Soto (L.A. Cali)
if u saw the first version and felt like you got cheated out of a overall good oliver stone experience, check this out and it should be redeming. I felt the first version had a lot of the stone elements i like minus the good film. this fits nicely and worth seeing.
 Collin Farrell as Alexander? January 27, 2010
K.W. (Zimbabwe Africa)
Collin Ferrell as Alexander the Great. Need you say more. Nothing against Farrell, he is mediocre for most things, but not a strong leading man by any stretch. As soon as you saw he was to portray Alexander, quite possibly the greatest conquerer of all time, you knew that it would be difficult to take at best. He is just not capable of selling that kind of strength and power. Few people are. That being said, when it came on cable I had to check out, despite my misgivings, as I am a huge admirer of Alexander and his achievements. I had hoped that there might be some good battle scenes, or at least that some of the brilliant tactics might have been covered, but as far as I could see there was nothing good about this film. I am not a fan of Oliver Stone, but this type of movie, if it were done any where near right, is clearly far out of his league.
Nonsense revisited January 3, 2010
JCV (Adventure, FL United States)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
You can revisit nonsense all you like and it is remains nonsense. What we have here is a revisionist take on history (from a northern European professor, of course, the Grand Masters of revisionism) telling us that Alexander was a blondie blue-eyed gay boy who conquered the known World to usher in Western Civilization. Funny, I've been to Greece and pretty much all over the Levant and the only blondie-blue eyes I ever ran in to were tourists. Also amusing that Alexander imposed the death penalty, Uganda style, for homosexual acts.
The Prequel: Blond-haired, blue-eyed gay aliens arrive from space to build the pyramids and submit a thesis to Oxford.
 Alexander January 2, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The true story of one of history's most luminous and influential leaders, Alexander the Great-â"a man who had conquered 90% of the known world by the age of twenty-seven. Alexander led his virtually invincible Greek and Macedonian armies through 22,000 miles of sieges and conquests in just eight years, and by the time of his death at the age of thiry-two had forged an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. The story chronicles Alexander's path to becoming a living legend, from a youth fueled by dreams of myth, glory and adventure to his lonely death as a ruler of a vast Empire. Alexander is the incredible story of a life that united the Known World and proved, if nothing else, fortune favors the bold. The most interesting issues in the movie lay with Alexander's personality. Expect some surprises. After all, he was real. And his story lives on.
Worst movie I've ever seen December 28, 2009
Michael D. Hirschberg (Chicago, IL)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I walked out of this movie in the theater. It's the only one out of 300+. That should tell you what kind of terrible film this is.
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