Alexander Nevsky DVD

Advantages: Good story, Loads of factual information
Disadvantages: Nearly 3 hours long!

...with the women that venture into Alexanders life and not so much in the battles as i had previously hoped. Overall if you have a spare three hours to waste and your willing to ignore the poor casting this is a really enjoyable film to watch and one i would recommend to fans of Troy and 300 or anyone just looking for a factual representation of the Alexander the great tale. Price & Availability: Alexander is available to buy on DVD from Amazon for just £5 and thehut.com for £7 and is good value for money... Read review

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Advantages: An ambitious epic with charismatic central performance from Colin Farrell
Disadvantages: Some scenes are badly written

...>>> Comment summary Director's cut: Vehemently ripped apart by contemporary critics, this movie takes one of the most famous and remarkable people in all human history and attempts to present it on-screen. Key scenes are hamstrung by non-sensical dialogue but the plus points outweight the bad with Colin Farrell nailing the 'great' one from his first scene, Vangelis returning to the Hollywood big-screen after more than ten years with a suitably stirring score and a number of strong epic moments including the Battle of Gaugamela and the battle against Porus. It still doesn't convey just how remarkable and far-reaching Alexander's accomplishments were but it does better than any previous attempt. >>> Plot teaser A story of Alexander, King of Macedonia, who conquered almost all of the known world and brought it together into a single... Read review

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Advantages: big budget-good fun-good story
Disadvantages: unscary morlocks

...A big budget movie mad and directed by Simon Wells and is a modern remake of the 1960s time machine. This movie is about Hg wells remake of the original "time machine" back in the 1960s. The 2002 remake stars Guy Pearce .... Alexander Hartdegen Mark Addy .... David Filby Orlando Jones .... Vox Samantha Mumba .... Mara Omero Mumba .... Kalen Jeremy Irons .... Uber-Morlock Sienna Guillory .... Emma Phyllida Law .... Mrs. Watchet this movie is about a Victorian man named Alexander who lost his loved one to death, he invents a time machine to go back and save her but every time he returns she always dies a painful death, he then decides to travel further into the future going from one time to another eventually he settles in 800000 ad. Alexander encounters a new species called the morlocks who have lived for many centuries, they are big... Read review

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