Can’t wait for Sofia Coppola’s Josephine

Gotta respect Joaquin Phoenix’s commitment to becoming Hollywood’s go to guy when they need to cast a narcissistic little freak with mommy issues

Ridley Scott promises Apple he’ll make another Gladiator and takes $200 million of their money to make a comedy about how much Napoleon sucks and what a weird loser he is. A legend. I bet the four-hour cut is gonna get at least an extra half star

would’ve been an instant 5 stars from me if ridley was brave enough to have waterloo by abba playing during the end credits

I do not understand who this film is for.

If you care about history, you will tear your hair out.

If you like semi satirical Death Of Stalin style historical comedies, you'll find a solid 45 mins in there, maybe.

If you like complicated character studies, you'll wish PTA wrote and directed this instead, so maybe we'd get some of the brilliant, charistmatic politician and tactician alongside the insecure and pathetic man. Character studies need a character to study, not just a parody.

If you like great complicated romances, it could have worked if Napoleon wasn't portrayed as a complete tool.

Instead there are four films in there, none of them engaging enough on their own, and mostly just baffling together.

A waste of a perfect cast.

Looks fucking pretty though, and Ridley sure knows how to direct a good kaboom.

god forbid short man have hobbies

RIP Napoleon, you would've loved Minions: The Rise of Gru.

It’s weird, the last trailer I saw said that the film was by the director of:

-Alien
-Blade Runner
-Gladiator
-Black Hawk Down
-American Gangster
-The Martian

…But the film I saw was by the director of:

-Alien: Covenant
-Robin Hood
-Kingdom of Heaven
-Hannibal

“Napoleon” is pointless. Sure, Joaquin Phoenix portraying the famed general as an idiot is entertaining, even immensely funny. But only for a moment. You never get a sense of Josephine the person or Napoleon as a ruler: What laws did he enact? How did France change under him? Ridley Scott has nothing new to add to the material or to the man. It's merely a drab, lifelessly composed and shot costume play without any contemporary significance.

It slaps if you think about it like a really long family guy cutaway gag

"Destiny has brought me this lamb chop" - Napoleon talking about his lamb chop and also me talking about this meaty slab of fun

A movie about a French leader in France , and not one word of French or not even a French accent