Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut (Blu-ray / 2004)

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Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut Blu-ray

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• Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut Blu-ray available on March 30 2019 from Amazon for 5.99
  
• Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut (Blu-ray / 2004) available on June 28 2015 from Newegg for 12.99
  
• Alexander (Blu-ray) available on June 06 2015 from Buy for 19.98
  
• UPC bar code 085391143536 ξ3 registered March 30 2019
  
• UPC bar code 085391143536 ξ1 registered September 13 2015
  
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• Manufacturered by WarnerBrothers
  

• Sku # N82E168085391143536
  
• Product color is color
  

• Product weight is 0.25 lbs.
  

Blu-ray Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) 2 213 Alexander Revisited: (Unrated) Final Cut, The (Dbl BD)]]> 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

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References

^ Alexander - Farrell, Jolie, Kilmer Blu-ray UPC 085391143536 (revised Oct 2015)
^ Alexander Revisited: Final Cut (Blu-ray Disc, 2007, 2-Disc Set) UPC 085391143536 (revised May 2015)
^ (2007). Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut [Blu-ray], Warnerbrothers. Amazon. UPC 085391143536 (revised Mar 2019)
^ (2012). Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut (Blu-ray / 2004), Warner Home Video. Newegg. UPC 085391143536 (revised Jun 2015)
^ Alexander (Blu-ray) Buy. UPC 085391143536 (revised Jun 2015)