How to make Napoleon look like a beta male and man child (spoilers)
It might as well be made by a feminist. Or an art movie director getting way too much money, because it is slow and boring.
If you think this is a war movie, think again. The battles are window dressings rather than the theme of the movie.
Napoleon is presented as an awkward, clumsy, nerdy and non social cuckold, who married the first woman showed him her boobs. Why am I thinking of Will Smith? Maybe that is where the real life inspiration came from, Napoleon's relationship with his wife that is.
There are places in this movie were kind of funny, especially when Napoleon had council members surrounded by his army with guns pointing at them, and say:"Shall we vote?".
There is one thing you won't see in the movie is a brilliant man, if you want to see Napoleon as more of a loser, then this is your movie.
After watching I can not shake the feeling that Napoleon is quite lame, a man with almost no redeeming qualities. Yeah, the movie poster tagline is a lie.
Anyway I think that is what happens when you let an English director making a movie about a French conqueror.
Ridley Scott said in an interview that the French audience he showed this movie to loved it, now I know for sure he was lying.