50
Sometimes stunning, ultimately stupefying epic .
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
60
Dallas Observer by Gregory Weinkauf
The creators of Alexander set out to make an epic, and they can't be faulted for the many elements that succeed on this scale; what's unfortunate is that they don't quite deliver a camp classic.
50
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
By de-mythologizing Alexander, Stone has turned him into an unbelievable individual. We accept great deeds from great people, not from sniveling whiners.
70
New York Magazine (Vulture) by Ken Tucker
As one of the few movies around not pushing state-of-the-art animation or Jude Law, Alexander is a damn good date movie.
60
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
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.
30
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Although inexplicable brogues and burrs appear and disappear, and although Stone post-produces the dickens of his movie trying to generate the maximum spit-fog of sound and fury, Alexander manages to be as dull as the Victor Mature films of the 1950s, which barely moved at all.
25
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Alexander breaks the key rule that makes movies move: Show, don't tell.
70
Makes for a long, lumpy trip with a charismatic guide and some brilliant detours.
30
Stone has made an excruciating disaster for the ages.
50
At best an honorable failure, an intelligent and ambitious picture that crucially lacks dramatic flair and emotional involvement.