I can't recall ever walking out of a film. If I have, it's been a loooong time! My husband leaned over and said, I'm done, I'll wait for you outside. And I realized I was miserable as well. We left. In 15 years we've never walked out of a film.
I had heard a podcast with Ridley and wanted To see it after hearing how this epic was made!
It was non stop battle and bloodshed For the first 45 mins, with about maybe 6 mins of dialogue. And not Great dialogue either. Joaquin is fabulous as always, but especially in this as he does so much with so little on the page.
It's endless bloody battle scenes. How much of that can you sit through? And why?? What does showing the 96th person blow to bits inform us of over the 95th person blown to bits?? It goes on and on And on And on With the bloody battles.
This we know of napoleon! The relationship scenes with Josephine was also not informative. Ridley seemed to chose to cover so much of napoleon's life and every big battle that maybe it was just too much to leave room for real character development or insight.
It's a shallow film.
And why Tell this story? What will we learn?
I'll never know as 45 mins was 46 too many. The 4 stars are an A+ for effort! By everyone. A massive project. (Just not sure why).
I had heard a podcast with Ridley and wanted To see it after hearing how this epic was made!
It was non stop battle and bloodshed For the first 45 mins, with about maybe 6 mins of dialogue. And not Great dialogue either. Joaquin is fabulous as always, but especially in this as he does so much with so little on the page.
It's endless bloody battle scenes. How much of that can you sit through? And why?? What does showing the 96th person blow to bits inform us of over the 95th person blown to bits?? It goes on and on And on And on With the bloody battles.
This we know of napoleon! The relationship scenes with Josephine was also not informative. Ridley seemed to chose to cover so much of napoleon's life and every big battle that maybe it was just too much to leave room for real character development or insight.
It's a shallow film.
And why Tell this story? What will we learn?
I'll never know as 45 mins was 46 too many. The 4 stars are an A+ for effort! By everyone. A massive project. (Just not sure why).