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Not entirely bad
But difficult to call good. The actors are good, but have crummy lines to speak and are poorly directed. It seems a waste, since one is left with a feeling that with greater creative imagination and more dynamic direction this could have been an effective film. The look of it is heavily dated, with the costumes far too bright and clean-looking all the time, and the style is generally very theatrical. Nothing convinces: certainly not the battles; and the way the scenes are shot is mostly plain dull. It also seems to jump about in a jerky manner, especially in the later scenes: probably it had been heavily cut down by someone with minimal sense of pacing. It would be nice, some time, to see a film where someone had taken the trouble to deeply immerse himself in the way people truly lived, thought, spoke and interacted in Ancient Greece. I could never quite believe what I was seeing here. Nevertheless, there is something memorable about the movie, and I think it must simply be down to the presence, voice and look of Burton, in spite of his back-combed strawberry blond rug and fake tan. Every now and then you suspect that, given a director with a tauter, clearer vision and more drive, he might have produced an Alexander to match the legend. With new words and new music it could have been a great song. Strangely enough it has left me with a much stronger and longer-lasting impression than Stone's Alexander, which I watched a couple of months ago and can't remember anything about.

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alexander the great
what a horrible movie!I bought this dvd in best buy,I need my money back! This movie is twisted every thing about Alexander the Great!Roxane was not Persian princess,Alexander didn't die in Persepolis,on and on... I know this movie was made in 1950's <
>But God!Richard Burton is too old to be Alexander the Great. <
>Darius didn't wrote a letter to Alexander when he die. <
>If you want to know more about true Alexander,then just wait about 2months,and buy oliver stone's 'Alexander'. <
>Also buy Arrian,Curtius,Diodorus!

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Alexander, the Bore
I remember as a teen, I saw it and didn't care that much for it. As an adult, I re-rented it, and found it a colossal/horrible boar/bore. Richard Burton far too old for the part, and always speaking as if he were at a podium. Production values monotonous and dull. Oliver Stone did a magnificent job on his version, and Colin Farrell should have been nominated for a best actor award. (Unfortunately, MMBaby won; and Phantom wasn't even listed. Doesn't anyone value quality anymore?) Nonetheless, Burton was far better & more human in Cleopatra. And that's it, folks. I advise neither to rent or to buy this version of the Great Alex. Amen