
Conquering ninety percent of the known world by the age of twenty-five, Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell) led his armies through twenty-two thousand miles of sieges and conquests in just eight years. Coming out of tiny Macedonia, Alexander led his armies against the mighty Persian Empire, drove west to Egypt, and finally made his way east to India. This movie concentrated on those eight years of battles, as well as his relationship with his boyhood friend and battle mate, H... (Full plot summary below)
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Conquering ninety percent of the known world by the age of twenty-five, Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell) led his armies through twenty-two thousand miles of sieges and conquests in just eight years. Coming out of tiny Macedonia, Alexander led his armies against the mighty Persian Empire, drove west to Egypt, and finally made his way east to India. This movie concentrated on those eight years of battles, as well as his relationship with his boyhood friend and battle mate, Hephaistion (Jared Leto). Alexander died young, of illness, at the age of thirty-two. Alexander's conquests paved the way for the spread of Greek culture (facilitating the spread of Christianity centuries later), and removed many of the obstacles that might have prevented the expansion of the Roman Empire. In other words, the world we know today might never have been if not for Alexander's bloody, yet unifying, conquest.
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| Zap2it.comMichael SzymanskiIf you like good war films, if you like good history epics, if you like good romances and good stories with great performances, then this film won't disappoint. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranIf, as the Virgil quote that starts the film claims, fortune favors the bold, Alexander has not been nearly bold enough. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyStone doesn't present characters that the audience can believe in, even for one moment, as representative of their historic roles. |
| Film SnobsJimmy OThe film's sense of drama and tension makes the experience alive and palpable. |
| Catholic SunFr. Chris CarpenterOverly-verbose; one of the year's 10 worst |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanIt occasionally fumbles and it sometimes feels downright hokey, but it cumulatively earns a feeling of gravity and reverence that fully justifies its extended running time. |
| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisYou know the movie is bound to be swill: imperialist daydreams indigestibly stewed together with limp Oedipal anxiety and unpersuasive pacifist lip service. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin Clifford[Alexander] is too long and lacks the action needed to sustain the attention required. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekPretty much a mess, an alternately turgid and florid movie that feels like a drugged-out version of a Cecil B. DeMille epic. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonVast, riveting, madly audacious movie biography. |