Waterloo

Name: Waterloo
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1957-01-01
Rating: 9

Documentary18m

🍅27%

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27%

Tomatometer

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83%

Popcornmeter

9.0

TMDB

Storyline

However impressive the site is, however bossy the guides are, the visitors of the Musée Napoléon listen only absent-mindedly. Does this young lady really care about the tragic destiny of emperor Napoleon or Europe's changing face or isn't she more interested in her won reflection in a window case? And isn't the camera operator more prone to film the cornet wimples of visiting nuns than the fossilized remains of Napoleon's fallen grandeur...?

Details

DirectorEdmond Bernhard

ReleasedJan 1, 1957

Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

0 fresh · 6 rotten

Roger Ebert

RTChicago Sun-TimesJul 9, 2018

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.

Stefan Kanfer

RTTIME MagazineFeb 8, 2018

As for the golden history and legend, they lie buried beneath this delayed replay of a primer on strategy.

Geoff Andrew

RTTime OutJan 26, 2006

Visually impressive, but a rather silly attempt to explain Napoleon.

John Mahoney

RTLos Angeles Free PressJan 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.