6) Alexander
Alexander is another film that looked great on paper, but accomplished nothing but disappointment on the big screen. How Oliver Stone managed to turn the story of Alexander the Great, one of the most important and powerful men in human history, into such a plodding and disappointing biopic is an extraordinary feat in itself.
Stone certainly had the proper people in place to fill the cast. Colin Ferrell stars as the titular conqueror, while Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto, Rosario Dawson, Val Kilmer, Game of Thrones‘ Rory McCann, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ Toby Kebbell, Christopher Plummer and Anthony Hopkins round out the supporting cast.
Upon release, Alexander walked away with scathing reviews that called it “an excruciating disaster for the ages,” and “a lunk-headed train wreck that looks like a tag sale in a 323 B.C. supermarket in old Peking.” Ouch.
Stone never quite recovered from the three-hour mess that was Alexander and has continued making disappointing films for the last ten years. His cast, however, have managed to fare just fine, making this little misstep ancient history in their otherwise stellar careers.
