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: Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer was the youngest person admitted to Juilliard’s drama division at the time, and brought that training to Top Gun, Willow and Batman Forever.
Tombstone is the performance that lasts. Doc Holliday is played as a dying man amusing himself, and Kilmer’s line readings in it are quoted constantly.
The Doors required him to sing every song himself, and surviving band members reportedly could not distinguish his vocals from Morrison’s. Throat cancer removed his voice in 2015, and Top Gun: Maverick used an AI reconstruction of it.
