(2004)
"Fortune favors the bold."
This is a prime example of bad filmmaking that needn't have been...Oliver Stone was way out of his element/genre directing this kind of film, and Colin Farrell was a poor choice for the lead; I like him well enough but he just couldn't carry this role, and with the blonde mullet he sports in it I just kept thinking, "Fabio! Fabio!"
A lot of great actors in the cast: Angelina Jolie, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins...all underused. Rosario Dawson is great too...and her performance was spicy! Jared Leto just wandered around with his big blue eyes, looking like a puppy, and Val Kilmer was, as usual, a complete ham. Jolie is in her element here as Alexander's vixen mother (yes, mother), playing with snakes, her black kohl-rimmed eyes brimming with mischief, although I must say that I found her use of a Russian accent a bit perplexing. Expanding Jolie's and Dawson's roles would have helped the film immensely; those two were the only really interesting characters.
Basically, this film suffers from (1) poor direction and (2) poor choice of leading man and (3) bad acting. That's a lot of major problems, isn't it? And if battle scenes are flat-out boring....! Good choice of narrator though - Anthony Hopkins has a great voice. And it's a good thing someone does narrate, because the film often needs explanation.
Watching this dud just made me want to re-watch really good epics such as "Lawrence of Arabia", "Gladiator", or "Ben-Hur".
3 comments:
Russian accent? That is a bit weird. But I do like Jolie's look, and yes, her eyes are amazing in all the promo posters and such.
But I haven't yet seen the movie. Everyone has spoken poorly of it, I trust their word. The only reason I'd want to see it would really be the quasi-attraction between Leto's character and Farrel's. Course everyone also said that was watered down and only hinted at...and if my main goal is to watch gay man on man porn, I might as well watch the real thing, eh.
I am so sorry for whoring up your movie blog. Wasn't my intention. :o)
Bwah ha ha! That's okay Al, it needs some "whoring up" on occasion. :D
The homosexual attraction between Leto's and Farrell's characters was watered-down yes, barely more than hinted at.
I would have been more interested in seeing Jolie and Dawson's character toying with each other anyway; the men is this film were mostly pretty bland.
True. Besides, anyone who clearly allowed themselves to walk around with such a BAD dye job (as Farrel had) shouldn't be playing a character with homsexual tendencies...I mean, really, if he was gay, he wouldn't stand for it!
I kid.
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