I thought the movie was called napoleon. I was wrong. The right title was josephine.
More than half of the movie was about her and here is where the problems start.
For a nearly 3 hours epic film it should include important historical facts about napoleons' reign and it didn't cause the film was all about napoleons' obssesion with josephine.
Where was the pope in the movie who crowned napoleon as king of rome ? We only saw his coronation as the emperor of france.
Where was the important historical event of the actual end of the holy roman empire after francis II abdicated the throne so that napoleon could not usurp the throne (no matter that he did that eventually).
The russian invasion was so short that i was left kinda speechless.
Napoleon after that disaster he brought many children to the french army. Nothing is shown of this.
Finally no matter how good the actor is who played napoleon smg went wrong there as he played him with a...weakness which was not right for the character.
Someone else maybe should have portrayed him unless we can blame scot for this.
Despite all these flaws the movie is of a great value but certainly it could be much much better if josephine was not shown all the time in the movie.
Maybe in the upcoming 4 hours extended dvd edition we will get to see those events we missed in the theatrical version.
Anyhow this gets a B grade from me and that means that still the best film about napoleon is that 2002 tv mini series version called "Napoleon" with isabella rosellini and christian glavier who was a most convincing napoleon ever.
More than half of the movie was about her and here is where the problems start.
For a nearly 3 hours epic film it should include important historical facts about napoleons' reign and it didn't cause the film was all about napoleons' obssesion with josephine.
Where was the pope in the movie who crowned napoleon as king of rome ? We only saw his coronation as the emperor of france.
Where was the important historical event of the actual end of the holy roman empire after francis II abdicated the throne so that napoleon could not usurp the throne (no matter that he did that eventually).
The russian invasion was so short that i was left kinda speechless.
Napoleon after that disaster he brought many children to the french army. Nothing is shown of this.
Finally no matter how good the actor is who played napoleon smg went wrong there as he played him with a...weakness which was not right for the character.
Someone else maybe should have portrayed him unless we can blame scot for this.
Despite all these flaws the movie is of a great value but certainly it could be much much better if josephine was not shown all the time in the movie.
Maybe in the upcoming 4 hours extended dvd edition we will get to see those events we missed in the theatrical version.
Anyhow this gets a B grade from me and that means that still the best film about napoleon is that 2002 tv mini series version called "Napoleon" with isabella rosellini and christian glavier who was a most convincing napoleon ever.