Alexander (2004) Review
Alexander (2004) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Oliver Stone spent a hundred and fifty-five million dollars on a life that has no shape, released it, and then recut it three separate times across ten years trying…
Actor: Colin Farrell
Colin Farrell was pushed as a Hollywood leading man in the early 2000s, in Alexander, S.W.A.T. and Miami Vice, and the results were largely poor. He has been open that he was drinking heavily throughout.
In Bruges changed everything. Playing a hitman paralysed by guilt, he found a register of comic distress that has defined the better second half of his career.
The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Banshees of Inisherin followed with Yorgos Lanthimos and Martin McDonagh, and Banshees earned him a Best Actor nomination.
The Batman buried him under prosthetics as the Penguin, unrecognisable, which he clearly enjoyed.
