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Waterloo

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Exiled Napoleon (Rod Steiger) leaves Elba, enters Paris and then meets the Duke of Wellington (Christopher Plummer) in the 1815 Battle of Waterloo.

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 07/09/2018
2/4
Bondarchuk is so overwhelmed by the thousands of Russian cavalry troops he's been given to play with, and by his $25 million budget, and by-his obsession for aerial photography, that his leading characters turn out scarcely more human than his extras. Go to Full Review
Stefan Kanfer TIME Magazine 02/08/2018
As for the golden history and legend, they lie buried beneath this delayed replay of a primer on strategy. Go to Full Review
Geoff Andrew Time Out 01/26/2006
Visually impressive, but a rather silly attempt to explain Napoleon. Go to Full Review
John Mahoney Los Angeles Free Press 01/11/2020
Waterloo is a spectacle which constantly pays off its panoramas in close-ups... But it gives us only a surface personality of the key military strategists, bits of clever dialogue. Go to Full Review
John Hofsess Maclean's Magazine 10/21/2019
... in Waterloo the style is pedantic, the information dubious. Go to Full Review
Penelope Houston The Spectator 07/09/2018
A confusion of spectacular aerial shots, romantic slow- motion calvary charges, mumbled high command conferences and deafening artillery. Go to Full Review
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Laurentfxu3 R @RT39737286 3d HOLY MOVIE LIKE HONESTLY FOR A 1970 MOVIE THIS IS GENUINELY INCREDIBLE AND WAY BETTER THAN 2023 NAPOLEON NO OFFENCE JOAQUIN. BUT YEAH MANY PEOPLE DONT UNDERSTAND THAT THIS MOVIE IN PARTICULAR IS NOT FULLY ABOUT NAPOLEON BUT ABOUT THE BATTLE ITSELF ITS GREATNESS. AND NOT MANY PEOPLE APPRECIATE AND VALUE THE HARD WORK NEEDED TO RECREATE THESE MASSIVE SCENES WITH NO CGI. AN INCREDIBLE MOVIE IM ON MY WAY TO WATCH IT FOR THE 5 TIME... See more Michael H @MichaelHopcroft 5d This is the sort of filmmaking they can't do anymore for numerous reasons. That does not make it any less watchable. Among all the extras and spectacle, Rod Steiger's Napoleon is a firgure dominating the screen. Charismatic enough to to take on an army and get them on his side, intelligent enough that his mind is always working, and achingly human in his vulnerable moments, he provdies a center to the film that other Napoleonic epics miss. This is hard to find but worth it. See more Noah N @RT34166277 Jun 5 This movie is better than napoleon! I think the scale and historical accuracy is amazing to think that they rebuilt a Fortress and hired thousands of Soviet troops and tot them how Napoleonic soldiers battle formations how to load their weapons and made it act like these people knew what they were doing, it’s mostly exactly how it happened. See more Maxim K @Max375 Apr 25 27% my ahh, critic clowns, this is one the greatest war movies of all time. Ridley Scott's stinker only highlights how awesome this movie is See more Todor Y @Phantom961 Apr 22 Well acting and long dialogue. Here i like long battle. Exceptional well recreated. See more Anonymous P. @Prussian_film_critic Nov 27 Good movie, very enjoyable and historical accurate. My only complaint is that the movie, lacks an epilogue, and that some of the Wilhelm screams are a bit immersion breaking. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Exiled Napoleon (Rod Steiger) leaves Elba, enters Paris and then meets the Duke of Wellington (Christopher Plummer) in the 1815 Battle of Waterloo.
Director
Sergei Bondarchuk
Producer
Dino De Laurentiis
Screenwriter
H.A.L. Craig
Production Co
Paramount
Rating
G
Genre
History, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Apr 25, 2006
Runtime
2h 3m
Sound Mix
Stereo
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