james mcdowell

Probably one of the worst films ever made..... seriously. Absolute bag of sh1te.

Had a reasonable start, and Michael Fassbender is good as always... However, when a waif looking woman the size of Kate Moss beats up and kills a famous warrior Roman general, I kinda lost interest..

First Napoleon, then Gladiator 2.... Ridley Scott just needs to hang up his boots now. I'm just glad I didn't spend actual money to see this re-hashed, boring, CGI drivel.

Race grifting nonsense.. factually inaccurate of how "diverse" London was back in WW2, and portraying white people as bad guys compared to the saint like immigrants (which didn't exist). Its a pity that a great like Paul Weller is in this pile of rubbish.

Joaquin Phoenix looks like he has just turned up on set after a massive all night session and really cannot be bothered with it all. His portrayal of Napoleon is terrible.. really not engaging and all over the place... mostly acting like a petulant child, or spoilt little soy boy. Napoleon was 24 at the Siege of Toulon, Phoenix looks even older than his 49 years... Ridley Scott managed to CGI Oliver Reeds face after he died during the filming of Gladiator... he could have at least tried to make Phoenix look younger at the start of the film. There is far too much nonsense going on with the story of his time with Josephine, and very little time spent on the rest of his impressive life... I am not surprised that the French largely hated this film.

"The gayest Star Wars ever". tells you everything about Disney pushing identity politics over a story and good character writing.... terrible.

A quick summary..... Immigrants = Good Multiracial Families = Good Muslims = Oppressed by white men. White men in general = Very rude and bad. Film = Depressing and disappointing.

So annoying, India is such a great country! However the first episode was ruined by Aditi Mittal banging on about colonialism... she should read some history books and realise that India was a separated and disjointed set of states after the collapse of the mogul dynasty and could have been easily replaced by a Persian empire, which would have been much worse. Native Indians gravitated towards the British trading ports of Bombay and Calcutta to give them a better standard of living... and ultimately reduce the socially degrading caste system.... James May is great, but the blinkered politicisation by Aditi Mittal ruins it for me.

What a slow and dreary waste of time.. proof than an Oscar nomination means nothing.