Annette A

“Don't Know Much About History” After reading so much on the history of Napoleon Bonaparte, I felt duped after watching this movie. I deeply craved to see Daniel Day Lewis play the role of Napoleon, in fact I cried. He would have transformed this film. I loved Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator…his acting was ingenious. However in the movie Napoleon, he suffocated the military genius of one of the world's greatest leaders and left the film lifeless. He looked much too old for the part of a young emperor and played the role poorly. The movie showed us some of what Napoleon did but nothing of who he really was. It was an American soap opera filled with lust, greed and power and an insult to France.