Excellent film riveting a powerful performance by joaquim Phoenix complex yet vulnerable and emotional engaging a nice balance between Napoleon the political and military genius and Napoleone Buonaparte the complex young man from Corsica that loved passionately France the army and Josephine Accurate and spectacular battle scenes that give a clear idea how Napoleon masterminded the ground and the opportunity he had to win a battle what was forming the square in the battle of Waterloo that all came alive for me