The Village Voice, November 24th, 2004
Tousled bleach jobs, one-eyed stiffs: Neo-epic drops its veils but keeps the nookie offscreen
ALEXANDER
Directed by Oliver Stone
Warner Bros.
Opens November 24
NATURALBORN KILLER
There seems to be no dodging the big, fat neo-epic, a born-again genre with roots in the expensive deployment of muscular-dull movie stars, milling extras, and Cinema-Scope. Today, only the expensive muscular-dull movie stars remain, stranded in a storm of digital backfill. Is a new line of weight lifter Hercules movies very far behind? Of this year's dusty antiquities (King Arthur, Troy, ThePassion of the Chris...
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