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'ALEXANDER' NOT SO GREAT\ LAME DIALOGUE GETS IN WAY OF THE ACTION.(Living)(Movie review)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
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November 24, 2004
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Byline: Christy Lemire Associated Press
Far from great, "Alexander" sporadically lumbers toward watchable, but mostly it's just bad.
And we're not just talking kitschy, B-movie bad. At least that would have been fun. We'll talking all-out, big-budget-bomb bad.
About a third of the way into this exceedingly earnest, three-hour epic, I wrote in my notepad, "This movie is going to tank." About two hours in, I wrote, "Ready for this to end."
Probably not the reaction director and co-writer Oliver Stone had hoped for when he began dreaming of ...
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