Alexander Revisited | Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut [Blu-ray]

Third time the charm? | Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut [Blu-ray] | Anthony Hopkins, David Bedella

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	• Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut [Blu-ray] Anthony Hopkins, David Bedella Warner Home Video, 2007 average customer review:based on 639 reviews view larger image
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GREAT MOVIE ON BLU-RAY

THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER ON BLU-RAY WITH THE high def.
also the extended edition add a lot more to the story especially the romance between colin and jared scenes.
recommend the blu-ray very highly. you see more detail of the cities and they sparkle like jewels.

Alexander Revisited

I liked Alexander Revisited so much that I have watched it at least a dozen times. It has plenty of "realistic" action but also gets into the psychology of its characters. I have much respect for the director Oliver Stone for having the courage to portray the "real" Alexander, unlike Wolfgang Petersen, the director of Troy who tried to pawn Achelles' lover Petrocolus off as his "cousin." That was contemptable. The truth was that Alexander showed little personal interest in women. The fact that he was bi-sexual (at most) did not detract from his being a colossus.
Jared Leto was very convincing as Alexander's general and lover Hephaestian, not to mention that he was gorgeous. I am sorry Francisco Bosch who played the eunuch Bagoas didn't get a higher billing as his character was important and he did a great job. I think they could have found someone more suited than Colin Farrell to play Alexander. For one thing, he looked nothing like him. Alexander was "more beautiful" than that. The horse that played Alexander's horse Bucephalus was an incredibly majestic animal! What a warrier!
I read in one review that Stone didn't stick to the facts. I disagree. It isn't easy to cram a life like that in three and a half hours, but the few things he altered were either to adher to the time limit or possibly for effect. The way Alexander found Bagoas was "simplified," and Bucephalus did not die in battle, but of old age at thirty. The general Cassander was one of the few of Alexander's boyhood companions not in his army because they hated each other. But I'm glad Stone included him because Jonathan Rhys Myers who played that role is one of my favorites. I'm sorry they didn't make more of the death of Hephaestian as in truth Alexander went into what some called a psychotic rage that lasted for sometime and had far-reaching consequences. Angelina Jolie as Alexander's mother Olympius was magnificant, and again, authentic, even down to the snakes.

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Third time the charm?

I quite liked the director's cut version of Alexander, while not being a great film it was something about it that I found fascinating so when I heard about this Final Cut I knew I had to see it. I think the movie is better this way, a lot better infact, but it will never be a great movie. There's something lacking and I can't quite put my finger on what it is.

I was hoping for a director's commentary (I think Oliver Stone's commentary track for the Platoon was superb) but I had to settle for an introduction. No other extras, this is just the movie.

I would recommend this to those who liked the previous incarnations of this movie, but I don't really think this cut will change anyone's view of the movie. Either you liked it to begin with (if so I recommend this cut), or you didn't (then I recommend you see the 4-hour cut of Kingdom of Heaven instead).

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Warner Brothers Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut (Unrated) (Blu-ray)
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!

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