It's a hit piece on Napoleon by an English royalist filmmaker.
A man fighting to free a nation from a group of aristocratic people who support an ideology of nobility and royalty to keep themselves elevated against their nation, is depicted as weak minded.
Every scene where Napoleon is victorious is depicted as a battle you shouldn't feel glad to see him win and the royalists of Europe who want to keep tyranny in place as the hero's of Europe.
Ridley Scott has done a disservice with this film both to his own integrity, if he ever had any considering he is an Englishman, as well as to anyone who watches it and the history of France becoming a Republic!