Alexander
“The greatest legend of all was real”
Director: Oliver Stone
Producer: Jon Kilik, Moritz Borman, 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.
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Cast
Colin Farrell
Alexander
Angelina Jolie
Olympias
Val Kilmer
Philip
Jared Leto
Hephaistion
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Cassander
Anthony Hopkins
Old Ptolemy
Jessie Kamm
Young Alexander
Christopher Plummer
Aristotle
Connor Paolo
Young Alexander
Patrick Carroll
Young Hephaistion
Peter Williamson
Young Nearchus
Morgan Christopher Ferris
Young Cassander
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Reviews
- D2.0
Dark Jedi
June 15, 2017
My wife picked this one up together with the weekly TV magazine. Luckily we didn't pay full price. I hoped for a film about one of the greatest warlord of all time but what I got was something about a crying homosexual wimp.
7.0John Chard
June 22, 2019
Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut. Alexander is directed by Oliver Stone and Stone co-writes the screenplay with Christopher Kyle and Laeta Kalogridis. It stars Colin Farrell, Val Kilmer, Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Christopher Plummer. Music is by Vangelis…
6.0Wuchak
August 10, 2021
_**Alexander’s conquests from Greece through Persia into northwestern India**_ After being tutored by Aristotle (Christopher Plumber), Alexander (Colin Farrell) takes over the Macedonian throne in 336 BC at the age of 20 after his father is assassinated (Val Kilmer). Over the next 13 years he, amazingly, conquers th…
6.0CinemaSerf
January 7, 2023
Opinion on this film seems to have been hijacked somewhat by the definition and appropriateness of the relationship between Alexander (Farrell) and Hephaestion (Leto). It seems daft to try to apply 21st century social morals onto a society in which same sex relationships were simply unremarkable. Whether or not it was…