bart kirchner

It’s a two hour commercial for Voss water!! There is no short of 20 mins screen time of her just pounding down Voss water! They much have paid a bunch.

I have never seen a movie who simultaneously failed at being a historical documentary, a war story, and a love story all at the same time. It was originally a 4 hr movie cut to 2.5 hrs. This should have been a six part series. Ridley Scott fails to deliver continuity, or character development enough to care about what happened during this 2 1/2 hour movie. No plot, no story, just a whole lot of jump edits that do nothing to make you invested in the story at all. Joaquin Phoenix gave the worst performance of his career, making Napoleon a great military tactioner and leader; a bumbling jealous idiot played somewhere between the joker and the gladiator. By the time an hour and a half rolled around half the audience was checking their watches and the other half fell asleep (literally). This is nothing short or an editing disaster. This movie should have gone straight to streaming or dvd. Be prepared to see a lot of the joker in Napoleon. That is not to say there are not some merits. Particularly the last battle scene of the movie was absolutely epic. However, the last two hours and fifteen minutes that you spent up until that point, did not warrant enough character development to care about the outcome. (Historically accurate - but finally ready for the conclusion) The other two battle scenes are good/great cinematically. They terribly fail at displaying the unbelievable massive tactical victories (the war college still teaches his tactics) and conquest Napoleon made. What Riley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix did to his legacy is nothing short of one word, DISGRACEFUL. Sad. I have been looking forward to this movie for almost a year.