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Waterloo

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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.

Critics Reviews

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 07/09/2018
2/4
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. Go to Full Review
Stefan Kanfer TIME Magazine 02/08/2018
As for the golden history and legend, they lie buried beneath this delayed replay of a primer on strategy. Go to Full Review
Geoff Andrew Time Out 01/26/2006
Visually impressive, but a rather silly attempt to explain Napoleon. Go to Full Review
John Mahoney Los Angeles Free Press 01/11/2020
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. Go to Full Review
John Hofsess Maclean's Magazine 10/21/2019
... in Waterloo the style is pedantic, the information dubious. Go to Full Review
Penelope Houston The Spectator 07/09/2018
A confusion of spectacular aerial shots, romantic slow- motion calvary charges, mumbled high command conferences and deafening artillery. Go to Full Review
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Anonymous P @Prussian_film_critic Nov 27 Good movie, very enjoyable and historical accurate. My only complaint is that the movie, lacks an epilogue, and that some of the Wilhelm screams are a bit immersion breaking. See more Warzone b Oct 20 Amazing movie with great cinematography and big battles. Don't let the "critics" fool you. They gave cuties a 90%. See more Mukta Mar 22 I still check out Rotten Tomatoes for critics evaluation of movies but there have been couple of instances like for this movie, when movie critics ratings and audience ratings have huge gap and are literally opposite. So something drastically changed and since I believe in Murphys law, is also changing globally in the audience approach for watching movies. I believe only couple years ago many checked RT before even watching movies, including myself but there are so many movies rated well by audience and bad by movie critics, that I began to watch movies even if poorly rated by pro film critics, just to check myself in personal experience with unbiased mind how good movie truly is, for me ! And yes I enjoyed many movies that have rotten ratings as did audience globally. So yes something have changed and will changed more in future. Less and less people will behave being ruled by media and seek their own experience. That is good, it means people are awakening ! See more Aiden D 09/17/2024 Other than a few minor editing issues, this movie is a brilliant display of historical accuracy and stunning filmmaking. If you are a fan of grand spectacles, you will love this movie as much as I. See more Tsune 08/17/2024 Legendary movie from a different age of filmmaking. A delicious treat for all those who are interested in the period, filled to the brim with bombastic performances, scenes and sequences. One is impressed by the Steiger and Plummer lines, only to be captured and mesmerized by the battle itself. I can't state how much love this movie deserves—a romantic portrayal of truly different times made in a truly special way. See more Dave S 08/15/2024 The music is late romantic period, which is around 70 years later. What a joke! Big, overblown mess of a movie. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

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
Producer
Dino De Laurentiis
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