re: Napoleon

If you go in with low expectations and aren't looking for historical accuracy it's not bad.

They made him seem like an idiot and a cuck way too much, and more than that not terribly smart. In reality he was absolutely brilliant and that seemed to really get lost.

They spent a lot of time on the Josephine stuff which I get, it's Hollywood, it just screwed up the flow and since she died before Waterloo it really didn't work.

The battle scenes are great, did a good job of showing strategy and while somewhat graphic they weren't focused on just being gore either.

Mainly though they just didn't explain what was going on very well and tell the bigger picture. It was a like he just kind of showed up here or there randomly instead of really fleshing out the history and what was going on with France and the other powers. They flirted with it but it came out very jumbled and didn't really make sense.

Considering the crap that comes out of Hollywood today? It's pretty good. If you are looking for another Gladiator? Uh, no.