Alexander (2004) Critic Reviews

If, as the Virgil quote that starts the film claims, fortune favors the bold, Alexander has not been nearly bold enough.Read the full review

The best there is to say is that it's better than ''Troy."Read the full review

Since the movie lacks a vision of what Alexander was really about as a man and a figure in history, it falls back all too frequently on movie spectacle.Read the full review

[Stone] gives us provocative notes and sketches but not a final draft. The film doesn't feel at ease with itself. It says too much, and yet leaves too much unsaid.Read the full review

At best an honorable failure, an intelligent and ambitious picture that crucially lacks dramatic flair and emotional involvement.Read the full review

Forget Alexander: The film is a pedestal to Angelina the great.Read the full review

By de-mythologizing Alexander, Stone has turned him into an unbelievable individual. We accept great deeds from great people, not from sniveling whiners.Read the full review

An exhausted epic, one that Stone has directed with an almost startling lack of personality or vision.Read the full review

Enjoyable in some places, but dreadful in others. It's boring here and exciting there. And it's almost always goofy.Read the full review