Write an ordered list of reviews about "alexander".
1. If [Troy] was a Pitt-fall, this is a stumbling Stone.
2. Bad cinematic and casting choices abound, but what keeps it compelling and watchable is Oliver Stone's keen eye for how youthful, talented men live fast and die young.
3. One of those magnificent train wrecks of a movie in which the director's vision drowns in a torrent of his own unbridled excess.
4. Ponderous to a fault, a good-looking production that just sort of sits there looking self-important despite the violence and intrigues basic to the story.
5. Alexander goes on far too long, and Colin Farrell as the military leader just doesn't live up to the high praise given him in the opening scenes.
6. At a reported cost of $155 million, Alexander qualifies as a super-spectacle in every respect but one -- namely in its neurotic, confused and sexually ambidextrous hero.
7. There is a great movie buried in this cacophonous mess
8. Much like the title character himself, this is an endeavor that strives for greatness but is too burdened by its own ego to live out the full potential.
9. You know the movie is bound to be swill: imperialist daydreams indigestibly stewed together with limp Oedipal anxiety and unpersuasive pacifist lip service.
10. It occasionally fumbles and it sometimes feels downright hokey, but it cumulatively earns a feeling of gravity and reverence that fully justifies its extended running time.