Napoleon

it’s wild how a movie with this runtime has neither the time to flesh out anything nor the time to give depth to any of the characters in a word, shallow, i felt absolutely nothing during and after nothing that happened during the movie felt earned, and it gives the impression napoleon floated through life being handed everything on a silver platter after some modest victories scott tried to capture every major moment and achievement of napoleons life in this runtime and therefore there was no buildup to anything, no climax, no lows, nothing  i hoped at least for some military tactics in the battle scenes, and even there was thoroughly whelmed as each battle was barely portrayed and phoenix played little to no role in any of it what is the point? his relationship with josephine was so random i’m not sure what their relationship was, and their depth was implied but never shown just all around a disappointment of a movie that i was genuinely looking forward to

Det er en virkelig flot film. Lækre kostumer, set- og production design. Virkelig lækkert. Slagene virkelig storslået og flotte, super lækre filmet. Lyd designet er virkelig fedt i Atmos. Det er ingen tvivl om, at Ridley Scott kan koreografer og filme "the spectacle" han har gjort det før i Gladiator og Kingdom of Heaven. Som historiker er jeg ret ligeglad med, hvor historisk korrekt en film er. Hvis jeg ville have den korrekt historie ville jeg læse en bog eller se en dokumentar. Men når det er sagt, så har jeg en grænse for hvad jeg kan accepter. Den så håbløs i sin skildring af Napoleon, hvor han bliver gjort til en liderlig klovn, der til tider fremstår som en meget simpel mand uden politiske tæft, karisma og diplomati. Den mangler at forklarer, hvordan den franskebefolkning og hans soldater elskede ham, og hvordan de andre europæiske stater frygtede hans taktisk og strategiske færdigheder på slagmarken. Det virker som om Scott fortsætter den britiske propaganda tilba