Waterloo

G

1970

2h 3m

History

Drama

List

30%

10 Reviews

Tomatometer

83%

1,000+ Ratings

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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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Ian W

What a shame all that money a cast of thousands and it misses. Is it Steiger the script or the direction. But, it was a challenge to create such an epic. A shame that there wasn't one of the lead actors characters that you could like and engage with. and there lies the fault. Save it for a very rainy Sunday.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/02/24

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Alex H

An amazing spectacle with a brilliant portrayal of a one of histories most complex characters

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/16/24

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nico T

wonderful recostruction, close as possible to the facts

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/01/24

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Anthony W

An all time classic. To this day the greatest number of extras. The portrayal of the battle is brilliantly realistic.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/30/23

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Andrew N

Amazing battle scenes and as close to historical correctness you can get. 17000 Ukrainian soldiers were used to create the realistic looking battle scenes. A classic.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/26/23

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Dionysis K

This is a classic, and Rod Steiger is immense, making the new Napoleon movie look like an amateur nightmare.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/21/23

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Sergei Bondarchuk

Director

Rod Steiger

Napoleon Bonaparte

Christopher Plummer

Arthur Wellesley

Orson Welles

Louis XVIII

Virginia McKenna

Duchess of Richmond

Michael Wilding

Colonel Sir William Ponsonby

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

Rated: 2/4

Jul 9, 2018

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Stefan Kanfer

TIME Magazine

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

Feb 8, 2018

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

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

Jan 26, 2006

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John Mahoney

Los Angeles Free Press

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.

Jan 11, 2020

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John Hofsess

Maclean's Magazine

... in Waterloo the style is pedantic, the information dubious.

Oct 21, 2019

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Penelope Houston

The Spectator

A confusion of spectacular aerial shots, romantic slow- motion calvary charges, mumbled high command conferences and deafening artillery.

Jul 9, 2018

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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
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