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metromix.chicagotribune.com - : Chicago Tribune - The film has at its center a magnetic, super-physical, smart, sometimes over-packed portrayal of Alexander by Colin Farrell, in blond locks and oddly appropriate Irish brogue - catching the king's charisma and self-confidence but not always his mysterious, seemingly invincible inner drive. (Stone uses Farrell and other Irish and British actors to quickly convey the class division between the rougher-hewn Macedonians and the more cosmopolitan Greeks.) more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : Chicago Sun-Times - I have always admired Oliver Stone's courage in taking on big, challenging films, and his gift for marrying action and ideas. ''Alexander'' is not a success, but it is ambitious and risky, and incapable of the inanities of ''Troy.'' Fascinated by his subject, he has things he urgently wants to say about Alexander, but his urgency outraces his narrative; he 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. more...
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www.boston.com - : Boston Globe - The movie's most assured moments are the wars, but those could have been filmed by anyone. War was personal and terrifying to Stone in ''Platoon'' and ''Born on the Fourth of July,'' but it's often generic in ''Alexander.'' If we've seen one sequence in which anonymous soldiers are impaled by zooming arrows, I'm afraid we've seen them all. more...
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