Battle Of Waterloo Scene | NAPOLEON (2023) Joaquin Phoenix, Movie CLIP HD

For the people saying we shouldn't complain about inaccuracies, imagine if the first scene of Saving private Ryan had been Eisenhower riding a horse charge in Omaha Beach. And Hitler showed up from behind the hills leading a flight of Apache helicopters from the Luftwaffe. This is how it feels watching this movie if you have the slightest knowledge about the Napoleonic wars 😂

Check out the 1970 movie ‘Waterloo’. A masterpiece in how to film battle scenes pre cgi. There were literally tens of thousands of extras used to film the massed ranks of the French and allied armies. One particularly shot where the camera pans from right to left along the allied line is simply breathtaking.

"Waterloo". 1970 starring Rod Steiger. NO CGI

Next thing you know Scott is going to make a movie with Abraham Lincoln fighting at Gettysburg.

Scott had a 50% chance of getting the direction of Blücher’s attack correct. He butchered that too.

Napoleon swinging his sword and stabbing people in the midst of battle like a damn hussar is one of the most absurd things I have ever seen. What was Scott thinking? If Napoleon actually did something like that he would be dead in seconds because everyone would know who he was. Not to mention the fact that he would not be able to direct the battle.

That sniper must have been grinding all night to unlock that scope

Safe to say, nothing like that happened at Waterloo. The whole set up was absurd.

Mon Dieu! I had heard that the Waterloo sequence was bad, but I never dreamed it was THIS bad. Forget the fact that absolutely no attempt was made to show any real tactics (but at least they did have the Anglo-Allied troops forming squares in the face of a cavalry charge) ... but trenches/field works? A huge French camp immediately behind the ridiculously thin battle line? The two armies just running at each other and looking more like "Braveheart" than Waterloo? Napoleon himself leading a cavalry charge, and with no Marshal Ney in sight (at least no officer that in any way resembled Ney) and then personally skewering at least one Brit? A sniper with a scope taking a pot shot at Nappy and blowing a hole in his famous hat? Napoleon turning and raising his sword as if to salute Wellington across the field? The list goes on. I actually think "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer" may have been a more historically accurate movie than this... but it's a close call. Watch Rod Steiger and Chirstopher Plummer in Sergey Bondarchuk's epic 1970's "Waterloo" instead of this pile of steaming merde de cheval from Sir Ridley "Were-you-there?" Scott.

Napoleon did not charge with his cavalry that day he was ill he was told to go rest a while and I believe that’s when Marshal Ney led his cavalry charge against Wellingtons Infantry squares. Napoleon’s strategic genius was not what it once was as before. The last act of the French that day was the infantry attack of the Imperial Guard.

There looks to be a bout two thousand men in the entire battle field and the grass is green and as dry as a bowling green. Napolean swinging his sword in battle and then the shocking acting by the so called Duke of Wellington as Blucher suddenly emerges from nowhere is Monty Pythonesque. This is truly hideous!

Imagine George W Bush was charging at the frontline and shooting enemy soldiers in a movie about the Iraq War.

One of the worst cases of historical inaccuracy put to film. Truly disgraceful treatment of the battle which shaped Europe for the next hundred years.

Ive paused this twice, about to comment, and I keep telling myself "Dont be a history nerd! Leave it alone!" Even when I saw a soldiers bayonet flopping, even when I saw Napoleon shouting commands instead of sending one of his messengers on horseback, even when the cannonballs seem to "blow up." But now, Napoleon riding in front, sinking his sabre into some private??? God what a stupid movie, and I thank those of you who referenced Monty Python!!

Lashing a spyglass to your Baker rifle... Now that's soldiering.

Wait wait wait.... is that a British "sharpshooter", armed with a flintlock rifle that has a SCOPE like a modern day sniper rifle, taking a shot at Napoleon?! WHAT THE ACTUAL SHIT, RIDLEY SCOTT?!

I'll never understand why Ridley Scott decided to make a fairy tale of Napoleon

Napoleon was not in the thick of the fighting at waterloo. And the battle did not turn into a disorganized melee. Glad I didn't waste my money on this at the cinema.

"Ridley, how should we shoot this climactic battle, to really do justice to the characters and real historical figures?" "Just...have them run at each other on horses. I don't know, it worked for Peter Jackson." "Are you sure?" "Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Then fuck off. Also, give the green bloke a sniper scope, he needs a sniper scope so that we'll know he's a sniper." "What role does he play in the film?" "He doesn't play any role at all. Just shoots at Napoleon in a throwaway bit." "That seems like poor directing-" "Excuse me, mate, were you there when I directed this film? No? Then fuck off."

I get that a Hollywood films has to make a film exciting, but with the Napoleonic wars you really don't have to make anything up to make it exciting to watch.