Atom User Reviews for Napoleon

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Robb Sjoberg

No story line with a plot and climax… no real character development… I was happy for it to be over

AW
Amy Wood
#snoozefest
#notmyfave
#boring

You can and should skip this movie. Fell asleep twice and yet, missed nothing. Excellent performance by Vanessa Kirby. Unbelievably bad performance by Joaquin Phoenix, rotten script, rotten editing job. Ridley Scott fails to capture the epic nature of the character or the…

VM
Victor Mayo

The battle scenes and the action was good but the other scenes were not necessary

DH
Deepika Harris
#epic
#original
#leavekidsathome

**********A ten star movie. Mr. Phoenix captivating interpretation i

JW
Jeff Weems
#notgood

Bad

PR
Patry Reyes
#incoherent
#snoozefest
#notmyfave

The movie felt like a soap opera, too much time spent on Josephine when they should have focused that time on Napoleon’s accomplishments, merits in battle, and his efforts for France and the Empire. While the film has some great imagery, and the costumes are great, the…

ER
Eliena Rivera

Poorly written and horrible chemistry

BP
Bill Pollak
#epic

Good but not great. Battle scenes are exciting but the rest of tbe story falls flat.

LF
Luis Filpo

Once again a director misses the point in presenting one of the most enigmatic characters in history. Once again we have a horny presentation of a character that was more immense that it was presented

AC
Anna Cassidy

Honestly, there were too many intimate scenes and not enough story telling. The lines were lacking as well and the story was incomplete.

WR
Weston Rowe
#boring
#sad
#greatproduction

Was truly excited to see this; however, it was an exhausting disappointment that was as interesting as a wet paper towel. It had so much potential. The bright side was the production, including outfits and special effects, which were outstanding. 3.5/10 for me dawg.

JD
Jose Delgado

Movie was not what I expected. Was dissapointed

AM
AMY MEUCHEL

Great movie minus the sex scenes. Not sure why they always feel the need for a love story. It could have done without. I was hoping for more battles.

YS
Yuri Shahalov
#epic

Great movie

MG
Martha Giraldo
#justokay
#disappointing

The real Napoleon was legendary and bigger than life, by all accounts a remarkable man and one of a kind who changed the course of history. Ridley Scott managed to reduce him to a boring tired looking old man with a perpetual hangover look on his face. This could have been…

JH
Jay Hernandez
#slow

There were some good moments and Joaquin Phoenix did a great job. But this movie left a lot of loose ends. Not very good story

TB
Travis brummett

smiping for josephine

AG
Anthony Gonzalez
#intense
#surprising
#epic

Hardly to see why the historic true story of Napoleon Bonapart, the French leader who emerged out of obscurity to marshal large millions of his people and materiel to realized his own vision, despite daunting odds—appeals to leading directors. It’s an impression that it’s…

DP
Dawon Preston
#inaccurate

Napoleon is one of the most charismatic men to ever walk earth and the movie made him into a whiny little boy that needs constant validation from his s**t wife

BM
Barbara Mesh
#leavekidsathome

Don't take your dad with you. Porn movie. We left!

PB
Phil Bohn

Underwhelming

SM
Steven Mniszewski

Very good. Would highly recommend

EG
Esteban Garcia

Great movie

SC
Steven Chaney

Many holes in the story but entertaining

JT
j t
#epic
#greatcast
#leavekidsathome

Best war film I've seen in a longggg time

NL
Natasha Lima
#greatcast
#epic
#leavekidsathome

Complex and Historical

AJ
Andrew Jackson
#epic

Good as a movie, not good as history. You just can’t cover Napoleon’s 60 battles from Toulon to Waterloo, the Josephine love story, his complete restructuring of government, law, education, metric system, and more, and throw in the French Revolution, all in 158 minutes. …

BL
Bruce Langsteiner
#intense
#truestory
#epic

A better job could’ve been done with his relationship with Josephine. We all know they had sex back then. Depicting it detracted from the real story.

HM
Herman Manuel
#intense
#epic
#mustsee

It is a very interesting and beautiful movie that youngsters need to know and learn.

NR
Noely Ramos
#notmyfave

The story telling was a little off- very awkward and not in a funny way.

AS
Alexander Schiraj
#significant
#inspiring
#original

An eye opener to historical events of epic proportions.

SM
Samuel Martinez
#greatvisualfx

What did they do to my manz

MM
Mike Mutrie
#confused

this movie has no idea what it wanted to be. Napoleon was not 1-dimensional? Is that the plot? Ridley Scott is overrated. has some absolute bangers in his repertoire but also many overrated movies like this one.

CJ
Christopher Jones
#epic
#leavekidsathome

the best battle scenes since gladiator

JL
Jerry Lanier
JZ
Johnny Zito
#greatcast
#justokay
SV
Steven Ventura-Leon
TH
Tyler Honeycutt
#leavekidsathome
PH
Paul Higgins
#slow
DT
Danielle Tremblay
#justokay
#leavekidsathome
#slow
TS
Terran Streeter
#leavekidsathome
#intense
#truestory
HW
Han Wang
#justokay
JH
Jose Hernandez
#slow
#greatcast
CG
Carlos Garcia
#decent
#greatcast
JC
Jonathan Choy
#slow
#justokay
#lovestory
PP
Punjan Patel
#epic
#intense
MP
Melisa Pearce
#intense
#epic
#truestory
DI
Dave’s IPhone 12 Pro Max
#slow
ML
Marine Lemoine
#mustsee
YG
Yash Gandhi
#epic
#truestory

Metacritic

60
Nov 21, 2023

Starting with the French revolution and ending with Monsieur Bonaparte’s no-bang-all-whimper exit from this mortal coil, the director’s sweeping, swaggering, occasionally stumbling history lesson is nothing more than an attempt to conjure up the road-show movie magic of yesteryear.

Metacritic review by David Fear
David Fear
Rolling Stone
37
Nov 21, 2023

We don't need another hero, but when it comes to the man at its center, Napoleon could have used a lot more oomph.

Metacritic review by Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post