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for larger version       ‘Alexander’ – The Great Goes Down
An audience member at the Loews/ Cineplex Odeon Fantasy Cinemas in Rockville Centre had the answer. As the three-hour epic ended, the clash of swords and sounds of bellowing war elephants melded into a gigantic yawn... provided by the patron. Despite two pitched battles (120 minutes apart), the story of Alexander has been made boring — hopelessly muddled by the man who created the conspiracy-confused “JFK.” Stone has simplified the complex conqueror into a guy who overcomes the known and unknown world as an excuse to run away from his domineering mother. And he steals the army of his murdered father, Philip (Val Kilmer), to do it. Played by Colin Farrell in California surfer locks, Alexander has a vague vision of uniting hundreds of tribes into a multicultural empire. Though he never loses a battle, he has two problems: He doesn’t know when to stop conquering and, bisexual that he is, he can’t produce an heir.
When Alexander arrives at the end of the world, he and his army have nowhere to go…and neither does Stone. Fortunately, we can get up and leave the theater. It may be better not to enter it.
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