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Like other reviews say, this movie is full of historical mistakes. I knew it was bad but some critics said it was entertaining enough to overrule this. So I thought some of it was going to be good.

It's like a 10 year old child repeating what he's been told somewhere in a British suburbs. Even the text at the beginning is wrong and is a british royalist political point of view "there's a revolution and french are starving" Well, that's just the reverse, it's because french were starving that they made a revolution. Make ups are british 18th century like. Furniture are not 19th century french. Napoleon is boring and old. But he never got a chance to grow old as they poisoned him.

While watching it, I wondered why some of the funny and epic stories in the life of Napoleon were missing, such as his mom that never conceded to speak french and kept talking Corsican "Hope that's going to last". The abduction of the Pope to force him to attend the coronation (and Napoleon famous word "Comediante", General Cambrone's "Merde" to the brits.... and so on.

But this would have been to kind in a movie aimed at depicting, in their point of view, an horrible dictator.

There are so many historical mistakes, that it is sure they did not submit the scenario to any historian. Like Napoleon ruling in Versailles, instead of Les Tuilleries, when Premier Consule. I also found extremely strange how they very nicely reproduced the scene of the coronation like it is in Jacques-Louis David's painting but they felt to make the place look like where it took place : Notre Dame of Paris.

Now I guess, that the producers and director just wanted to uneducate the audience and avoid anything entertaining. Where he's wrong is that it's not because a very few people are doing Napoleon's bashing that the general audience is not aware that he was a genius that put down two dozens of medieval little kings and spread democracy and the civil code, throughout the whole Europe.

I think now, that this movie was ordered to add some more Napoleon bashing. But in the end, they just went only half the way, as it was going to be released outside of the anglo-saxon world. The result is emptiness.

At, the end of the movie, the (exagerated) counting of deaths at Napoleon's victorious battles is just stupid. Especially as all these battles have been mostly defensive after foreign attacks. Yeah, British attacks.

For those who watched Rings of Fire, it's unbelievable how Phoenix is completely ignoring, how and who, was the character he's playing. This is going to be the worst memory of his fantastic carrier.

We like to put on the news or anything very common when cooking or eating when we let the TV set on.

This time we just picked this one on and it's been exactly what you should expect when reading this ridiculous title !

The plot is easy to keep on, it's just a copy of Armageddon"s. But it's missing Ben Affleck, no love story as it's amed at kids audience.

The CG is above the average of the other B-movies. The acting is better than expected. I mean, above 2/10 movies.

The dialogues are really, really funny. They're so much stupid that I guess they had a lot of fun writing it. "That each one be at peace with his God" (or something like that). And many other ones. And when they cried we laughed out very loud.

The fun was to guess in which order each city was going to be destroyed. (I lost, no World's Capitals, just US cities...).

We laughed a lot, much more than with most of today's comedies.

At least, this movie is very okay for kids.

Have fun.

I wondered, with only 1s and 10s ratings, what was going to be this movie like. This spoiled me the very first part as I was looking for some strong point of views one way or another. In fact, there is nothing controversial, it's just a nice indy movie.

Acting is quite good, characters are played well enough to get involved in the story and even choose a side.

The story was not really predictable, my friend guessed one end, and I guessed another one. So just don't trust too much those too angry or too excited reviews.

About the story, it was interesting, after all those legal battles on gay marriage and surrogacy, how a judge, how families, would behave. An inevitable subject 10 or 15 years later, now in 2023.