Christine Betremieux

One of the reasons why Hollywood should never meddle with history. Everything is wrong in there. Phoenix is nothing like Napoleon physically, Josephine is too young and most of the actors playing the French revolution main characters are not in accordance with their known portrait. The skinny Robespierre looked more like the chunky Danton for example. And I almost burst out laughing at the scene showing the back of Napoleon facing a group of uniformed dignitaries much taller than him. And let’s not start on the numerous historical inaccuracies! The main characters were not really developed and it was all very, very superficial. The film only served in developing some grandiose (if I can dare using this term) battle scenes. Napoleon was definitely much more than the pathetic warmongering individual portrayed in the film and I hope that Wellington was more than the caricature of a man shown in the film.