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Rating:  - Useless
This DVD is only readable by the American DVD reader system which I didn't know before buying it. Since I live in France it was useless to me
Rating:  - Surprised how good this film was. Sharp writing.
There is an excellent scene in this film: after Philip is assassinated by a young man, who is inspired to kill by Philip's wife, Alexander brutally kills the assassin (a good friend), then they CUT TO Alexander descending a stone stairway, he stops halfway, and tosses the bloody dagger at the feet of his Mother, the Queen. It's very well done.
I had honestly never heard of this film until a picked up a dvd copy at my local library. I expected very little, but got a lot more. Burton is terrific as Alexander, but I think the real star is the writing. Nicely done.
Rating: - Bruce Hodson
Absolutely fascinating movie. Quite accurate in most respects, presenting Alexander as Hollywood figure. I enjoyed watching it.
Rating:  - Tour de force performances!
Despite a static script, that would seem to be made for a theatrical stage, the presence of this splendid cast and a talented director, the refulgent brightness of Richard Burton in what we might denominate one of the most integral actors never born, finds in this personage the wisest and most available choice at this special moment.
The introspective gaze around this Macedonian conqueror, the epitome of the hero through his epic vision makes of this film a very good option to watch, as well as an invitation to get into his colossal project.
Rating:  - Not entirely bad
But difficult to call good. The actors are good, but have crummy lines to speak and are poorly directed. It seems a waste, since one is left with a feeling that with greater creative imagination and more dynamic direction this could have been an effective film. The look of it is heavily dated, with the costumes far too bright and clean-looking all the time, and the style is generally very theatrical. Nothing convinces: certainly not the battles; and the way the scenes are shot is mostly plain dull. It also seems to jump about in a jerky manner, especially in the later scenes: probably it had been heavily cut down by someone with minimal sense of pacing. It would be nice, some time, to see a film where someone had taken the trouble to deeply immerse himself in the way people truly lived, thought, spoke and interacted in Ancient Greece. I could never quite believe what I was seeing here. Nevertheless, there is something memorable about the movie, and I think it must simply be down to the presence, voice and look of Burton, in spite of his back-combed strawberry blond rug and fake tan. Every now and then you suspect that, given a director with a tauter, clearer vision and more drive, he might have produced an Alexander to match the legend. With new words and new music it could have been a great song. Strangely enough it has left me with a much stronger and longer-lasting impression than Stone's Alexander, which I watched a couple of months ago and can't remember anything about.
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