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REVIEW: Ridley Scott Mistitled His Napoleon Movie As It’s Another Bait-And-Switch With A Strong, Female Lead

December 10, 2023 by William Lehman Leave a Comment

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

Ridley Scott’s recent Napoleon movie not only missed the mark with its butchering of historical content, but the movie isn’t about Napoleon at all. He happens to play a part in the film, but Joaquin Phoenix isn’t truly the lead character.

According to Sony Pictures, “Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar®-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the film captures Bonaparte’s relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine, showcasing his visionary military and political tactics against some of the most dynamic practical battle sequences ever filmed.”

Napoleon at Waterloo
Napoleon at Watterloo, Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

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This movie should have been named ‘Josephine, Her Conquests and Effects.’ Of course, that still wouldn’t have been accurate to the realities of the movie, which had about as much relationship to history as the movie Starship Troopers had to the book of the same name (i.e., they used the same character names and some of the same battles.).

Though Joaquin Phoenix does well with the role he’s assigned, the writing and directing made so many errors that it came across as a character other than Napoleon more often than not. One can’t fault the actor for the role he’s been assigned, and his work was about the best for what he could do with the character.

The truth is that this was a poorly done Domination and Submission porn film with some of the raunchy bits taken out. I don’t know if Napoleon was a ‘switch’ in the B&D community, but the writers of this piece seem to think so. They spent as much time on his awkwardness with women as they did on his ruling of the nation and far more time on the bedroom scenes than the battle scenes. It’s another cynical example of Hollywood trying to force degenerate sex into every situation. Ridley Scott made the film about that instead of the interesting points in Napoleon’s life.

Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon
Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon in Ridley Scott’s film

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The one thing that clearly showed was that the writers hated Napoleon, Josephine, Luis, Wellington, War, and History. This is not a film for children due to the sex scenes and some graphic violence, or anyone who knows history due to the horrible inaccuracies.

Ridley Scott missed the mark with this Napoleon movie. I give this film one bullet out of six and left that bullet, with a pistol, on the desks of everyone involved in this production, sure that they know to “do the right thing.”

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What do you think about the Ridley Scott Napoleon movie staring Joaquin Phoenix? Leave a comment and let us know.

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