Now available is an all new and completely unrated version of Oliver Stone's incredible epic film?? loaded with nearly 40 minutes of additional never-before-seen footage?? that takes the film to a new level of realism and intensity. Restructured and expanded into two acts with one intermission?? Oliver Stone's vision is delivered the way he originally conceived and intended. With the new?? unrated andProduct DescriptionAlexander Revisited: (Unrated) Final Cut?? The (Dbl BD)]]>Amazon.comFor 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 " format of the Biblical epics of the 1950s and '60s?? with a three-and-a-half-hour running time (with an intermission at "e 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