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Alexander Revisited - The Final Cut Blu-ray



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Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut [Blu-ray]
Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut [Blu-ray]
List Price: $28.99Label: Warner Home Video

Salesrank: 1507

Released: September 18, 2007
Our Price: $10.79
Used Price: $9.98
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray

Features:

  • AC-3
  • Closed-captioned
  • Color
  • Director's Cut
  • Dolby
  • Subtitled
  • Widescreen
  • Starring:

  • Féodor Atkine
  • Brian Blessed
  • Nick Dunning
  • Colin Farrell
  • Angelina Jolie
  • Editorial Review:
    Now available is an all new and completely unrated version of Oliver Stone's incredible epic film, loaded with nearly 40 minutes of additional never-before-seen footage, that takes the film to a new level of realism and intensity. Restructured and expanded into two acts with one intermission, Oliver Stone's vision is delivered the way he originally conceived and intended. With the new, unrated and graphic battle scenes and unadulterated sensuality, it's the movie you couldn't see in theatres, now available on DVD for the very first time!

    DVD Features:
    Introduction
    Theatrical Trailer

    Description of Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut [Blu-ray]:
    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

    Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut [Blu-ray] Reviews:
    Boring and stupid. 3 Star Review
    2009-01-05 - The good:
    Was only ten dollars where i bought it.
    King Darius III is cute.

    The bad:

    Alexander comes off as a pansy. He gets his butt kicked often when he is young and he is just as unimpressive when he is older. The movie bluntly shows alexander as being homosexual. sadly he isn't the tough or rugged guy, he's a submissive like twink (soft squishy boy), which nulls his action hero aura.

    The battles are mediocre. Not great, not terribly bad either. Just boring. basically a bunch of body parts thrown about, and people swinging wildly. almost forgot plenty of running. would make a soccer team proud.

    references to troy, and vicariously the movie troy seems to be a poy
    The gentleman that plays adult alexander has a weird apperance. i know not a great reason to lower a rating, but his face is a little off. he's not ugly, but its strange enough to distract from the rest of the movie.

    Not much else to say. this movie is just boring. The narrator at the beginning says alexander is over hyped, and i guess the director felt need to make that come true. this alexander doesnt come across as a great leader or military man.

    Much different from theatre release 4 Star Review
    2008-12-28 - Alexander Revisited is much better than the original theater release. The extra minutes and the re-editing have made it a much better movie. Its still not a great epic film but a very good one. Seeing it in blu ray is a must for the battle scenes!!

    Nothing "GREAT" About This One 1 Star Review
    2008-11-24 - Oh, my gosh. This movie was, hands-down, one of the worst "historical" films I have ever seen. It may as well have been titled "I Love Your Kohl-Smudged Eyes" for the seemingly countless close-up shots of Alexander and pretty-boy Hephaistion staring dreamily at each other throughout the entire length of the film. We're supposed to believe that Hephaistion is a warrior!? No one could possibly finish this movie with an accurate idea of who Alexander the Great really was. In fact, a month after watching this film, I can remember little except the simpering, wimpy, pouty face of Farell (showcased beautifully and unemotionally on the DVD case) reciting endless bland dialoge and yearning desperately to get in bed with as many effeminate men as possible.

    Why was this film even MADE? Not for historacal accuracy, that's for certain. Or to showcase quality acting skills (there were none, except perhaps Jolie who gets an "A" for being the only person who didn't seem like a dead fish). Or an interesting pot. And not to produce a witty, educational, engaging script. The special effects and costumes get a scant B+ and are the only things that could possibly keep a viewer even remotely engaged in the film.

    What a waste of a story of a rich historical figure! How any person could give this more than one star is beyond me...these reviewers must not have seen a quality movie in a long, looooong time.

    Just a little too long 4 Star Review
    2008-10-13 - I really liked this movie and it played in 1080p.I think they it could have been a little shorter.The battle scene was well,i can't put it into words.I can't think of how men fought and died like that.Thousands and thousands i wonder if there still burying people today that fought there.Why were most of these men gay or is this just in the movie.

    Great Portrayal of a Great Historical Figure! 5 Star Review
    2008-09-29 - I loved this movie very much, it was a little bit long, but keep in mind to tell a great story like this one you must keep a open mind and sit down and listen.

    WARNING SOME SPOLIERS ARE PRESENT

    It starts out with the aged Ptolemy I Soter (Anthony Hopkins), a general, childhood friend of Alexander (Colin Farrell) and ancester of the great Cleopatra. He tells the story of Alexander as he remembers it.

    He begins to say that Alexander's mother Olympias (Angelina Jolie)was at the wrath of her abusive, drunk cyclopitic husband King Philip ll (Val Kilmer) of Macadonia. She claimed to have been with the god Dionisis and had Alexander with him. I probably would have claimed it too if I was married to a jerk like Philip. She also played with snakes, which I didn't mind because this is probably just me and all but I thought that the snakes she was playing with were really cute.

    Anyways moving on, one faithful day, Philip wants to kill an untrainable horse, and young Alexander, who wants to conquer the known world in the future, wants to train this wild horse and keep him. Philip lets him do so, and it turns out that the horse was afraid of his own shadow, and Alexander got to keep him when he tamed the wild thing. This is a true story too, I read it in my history textbook from school. And then he even bonds with his father too.

    But years later Philip takes a young wife and impregnates her, and Philip and Alexader get into a huge fight at the wedding ceremony almost leading Alexander into exile. After his father gets assonated, Philip's young wife and child are killed, and Alexander becomes ruler of all of Macadonia and Greece. He goes on to conquring Egypt, Anatola, which they don't show in the film. Then he conqures the big daddy of them all, the Persian Empire! The king of Perisa Darius lll fled like a little coward, amazing!

    Then he goes onto conquiring some of India, which he for some reason couldn't conqure all of. Then at the end of the film he dies of an illness. And the empire was split up by his generals into four parts. It just so happens that Ptolemy I got to rule Egypt.

    Also beautiful authintic costums, music, film settings and acting. It also goes into telling about his relashionship with his aparant lover and childhood friend Hephaistion (Jared Leto), which to me seemed more like true love then with his Bacterian wife Roxanna (Rosario Dawson), and I mean that women was a total b----.

    And last but not least it goes to tell how power corrupted him just like it did to his father.

    But this is a good movie, that is if you are interested in the ancient world along with war. I recommened this movie to just about anyone who can sit through a long movie on a very boring day.






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