Metacritic reviews

As one of the few movies around not pushing state-of-the-art animation or Jude Law, Alexander is a damn good date movie.

Makes for a long, lumpy trip with a charismatic guide and some brilliant detours.

Since the movie lacks a vision of what Alexander was really about as a man and a figure in history, it falls back all too frequently on movie spectacle.

The creators of Alexander set out to make an epic, and they can't be faulted for the many elements that succeed on this scale; what's unfortunate is that they don't quite deliver a camp classic.

At best an honorable failure, an intelligent and ambitious picture that crucially lacks dramatic flair and emotional involvement.

Sometimes stunning, ultimately stupefying epic .

By de-mythologizing Alexander, Stone has turned him into an unbelievable individual. We accept great deeds from great people, not from sniveling whiners.

Although inexplicable brogues and burrs appear and disappear, and although Stone post-produces the dickens of his movie trying to generate the maximum spit-fog of sound and fury, Alexander manages to be as dull as the Victor Mature films of the 1950s, which barely moved at all.

Stone has made an excruciating disaster for the ages.

Alexander breaks the key rule that makes movies move: Show, don't tell.