Waterloo

Name: Waterloo
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1967-06-18
Rating: 2.7

DramaHistory

🍅27%

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27%

Tomatometer

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83%

Popcornmeter

2.7

TMDB

Storyline

In the tense dramatic situation of a June night in 1815, a few hours before a battle that seems lost in advance, Napoleon has a choice: either go into battle and risk not winning it, or not go into battle, which of course means abdicating. To give up absolute power and offer his military experience to the people, to the republic...

Details

DirectorJiří Bělka

ReleasedJun 18, 1967

StatusReleased

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.