Thursday, November 25th, 2004
Alexander not so Great (I can’t be the first “clever” guy to come up with that one)
by Warren
Oliver Stone has wanted to make a movie about Alexander the Great for years. He’s finally put his vision on the screen, but apparently his vision sucks eggs.
That’s too bad. Much as Stone can go completely off the rails sometimes (NBK and the Doors spring to mind,) JFK and Nixon are editing masterpieces, taking a huge pile of material and distilling it into compelling (if not entirely accurate) films.
But his later stuff hasn’t been all that great; Any Given Sunday and U-Turn are entertaining enough, but they don’t really have the oomph of his earlier films.