Most reviews praise how well the films battle sequences were shot; I was hoping for more. It is pages of masterful analysis of the Napoleonic art of war. Robert Oppenheimer to be the inspiration for this movie. So, here's my take on the new film, Napoleon This so called "film" or whatever it is that you want to call it is nothing more than one long historically inaccurate "Snooze Fest" that could put even a diehard insomniac to sleep within the first twenty minutes into watching, it's that BORING!
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In the biggest howler scene, Scott has Napoleon confess to Josephine that he was nothing without her. Some wag said the two leads chemistry is as leaky as the Wu Han Lab. Even if their chemistry had felt real, the film would have had something else to offer…comedy. Phoenix cannot be held accountable as the poor writing undermined his performance onscreen.
The script does nothing to make him the larger-than-life character that he was. There is a dearth of great leadership speeches but instead we get the General making love with his wife under the dining room table in the full view of his palace guards.
Vanessa Kirby as Josephine is often the films prime focus but also suffers from the same lack of script support as the lead character. While the director plays out this portion extensively, I felt nothing for either character. Both contemporaries and later biographers were so fixated on her physical appearance and sordid reputation she was divorced twice, married three times, public mistress of two famous men, and mother of ten children, five fathered by her lovers that her role as a political actor sometimes appears as an afterthought.
