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Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut [Blu-ray] | ![Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YkaVr77bL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, David Bedella, Jessie Kamm, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $28.99
Buy New: $19.95
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 7393
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 213 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 14353
UPC: 085391143536
EAN: 0085391143536
ASIN: B000UPGQIU
Theatrical Release Date: November 24, 2004
Release Date: September 18, 2007
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For better or worse (and in this case, it's mostly for better), Oliver Stone's Alexander Revisited should stand as the definitive version of Stone's much-maligned epic about the great Asian conqueror. Following the DVD release of his previous Director's Cut, Stone offers a video introduction here, explaining why he felt a third and final attempt at refining his film was necessary. Essentially, he's using this opportunity to re-create the "road show" format of the Biblical epics of the 1950s and '60s, with a three-and-a-half-hour running time (with an intermission at the two-hour mark) including 45 minutes of previously unseen footage. Stone has also significantly restructured the film, resulting in substantial (if not exactly redemptive) improvements in its narrative flow. Alexander (played in a torrent of emotions by Colin Farrell) is dying as the film opens, his final moments serving to bookend the film's epic story, which incorporates flashback sequences to flesh out the Macedonian king's back-story involving the turbulent battle of fate between his father, King Philip (Val Kilmer) and his scheming sorceress mother Olympia (Angelina Jolie, ridiculous accent and all), who insists that Alexander is literally a child of the gods.
In Stone's final cut, epic battles remain chaotic (although Alexander's strategy is somewhat easier to follow, with on-screen titles indicating left, right, and center during his army's greatest maneuvers) and the ultra-violent battles are more graphically gory than ever (hence their "unrated" status). The animalistic lovemaking of Alexander and his barbarian bride Roxana (Rosario Dawson) is slightly extended (with Dawson as ravishing as ever), and Stone's additional footage also improves the overall arc of Alexander's relationship with his closest generals and male companions, although his most intimate homosexual encounters remain mostly discreet. As Alexander Revisited makes clear, the film's weaknesses remain unavoidable, but Stone deserves credit for recognizing how a longer running time, and more disciplined narrative structure, would bring Alexander closer to the respect it never earned from critics and filmgoers alike. This is unquestionably a better film than it used to be, leaving us to wonder why it took three separate efforts to shape Alexander into its best possible presentation. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Great Historical Epic! December 6, 2007
PermaFrost (Canada)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This Movie has everything one can want in an Epic Historical Movie! From the Great Battle Scenes in Persian Deserts all the way To Indian Jungles, Great Drama, Beautiful Scenery, Great Dialect, Great Story, Awesome Phalanx Formations, this movie is just 3 and a half hours of greatness!
 Not a great movie, but entertaining nonetheless. November 27, 2007
Gregory E. Sanchez (Denver, CO USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have never seen any other version. Only this one. It is indeed long. But that's the point of watching a movie on disk: there is always the pause button. Also, with an intermission, it allows the user to take in the experience, as I did, in two sittings.
Did the movie convey the temper of the times and what it might actually have been like to have campaigned toward what must have seemed the ends of the earth? Yes. Another point, though: if violence and the full range of human sensuality and sexuality might offend, don't pick this up. However, if you want to get a genuine feel for those violent and sensual times, I recommend this.
Fortunately, too, the film utilized Robin Lane Fox, a biographer of Alexander, as a technical source. So, even when Stone might have seemed to have pushed the edge here and there, historical context extisted in which to ground some of his interpretations--or there's no specific evidence either way and Stone's interpretation is as fair and truthful as anyone's. And, at this point of human history, that's the best we can do. The principals involved *could* have acted the way they act here, and they are not always nice people.
Visually, the film is stunning in Blu-ray. I was glad I bought and watched it.
 An incremental improvement November 15, 2007
C. S. Junker (Burien, WA USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This third video release of Oliver Stone's epic about Alexander the Great not only adds 40 minutes of new footage but radically restructures the film. There is a lot more jumping back and forth in time, tied together by Anthony Hopkins's narration. The two big battle scenes have been moved close to the beginning and the ending, bookending the rest of the picture. To some extent, this revision of the narrative improves the picture, but ultimately, this is still a coffee table movie.
Watching Alexander on Blu-Ray is nothing short of breathtaking. It's stunning how much effort went into the set decoration, makeup, costumes, and overall production design, and all of that work makes for a visual feast in high-definition. The scene of Alexander entering Babylon, for example, bursts off the screen with vivid, crisp colors, creating a genuine sense of another time and place. Photography is spectacular throughout, from the battle scenes to sweeping mountain and jungle shots.
None of this makes up for the muddled script and incoherent characterizations that hobble the picture. One long rambling scene after another features Colin Farrell as Alexander speechifying to swelling music. Farrell seems to be shouting, screaming, or crying in almost every scene, a poster child for scenery-chewing. No doubt this is what Oliver Stone asked him to do, but he lacks a certain three-dimensional quality. We never understand much about Alexander and his motivations. Jared Leto, as Alexander's closest friend Hephaiston, is a much stronger screen presence; even Anthony Hopkins's narration is more involving.
At 214 minutes, this requires some patience to get through, although it's never exactly boring, just slow-moving. If you didn't like the theatrical release or the slightly shorter Director's Cut, it's unlikely you'll like this new version more. If you were a fan of the original, however, this is worth a look, especially if you can see it in high definition. Even some coffee table books are worth buying just to look at.
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