blacksmit049

I have seen this recently and I think it display so much accuracy than any film. But of course I've read that there are some minor inaccuracies. \

I think it's great, and better than CGI effects. All are real!

Anyone who have seen this film? Thoughts?

poser765

Good film. I have to say i was far more captivated by the scenes of the armies standing off then the scenes of them actually fighting. The fighting scenes you couldn't really get any sort of tactical grasp as to what was happening in the battle.

The casting was about spot on perfect. Napoleon, Wellington, Gouchy, Picton, Everyone was cast exactly right.

blacksmit049

There was a youtube upload of that, the user was Napeleontas, if I correctly remembered.

PraiseGod_Barebones

awesome film, one of if not the greatest battles in cinema history.

ralfy

Very good characterization.

A7X

Personal favorite.

Toltec

Nice film directed by the Russian directer Segie Bondachuck in Russia using the Russian army and much of the sets and equipment from the film War and Peace he made in Russia a couple of years earlier.

If you like Waterloo you'll love War and Peace, visually identical, only on a much huger scale. The Battle of Borodino is allegedly the largest battlescene in movie history, using 200,000 Russian soldiers and lasting forty minutes without respite (or talking, barely)

Edratman

I also like the film Waterloo, well at least the battle scenes, and I'll have to try War and Peace.

Artabazus

A good film. I seem to recall that it didn't do very well financially, and as I suppose it was an expensive film to make, that would have been yet another nail in the coffin of epic period films, a genre that had been so popular for such a long time. The public taste had also changed; the New Hollywood had augured in smaller 'rebel' films like The Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde.

Belisarius

There were many things wrong with it, but you just couldn't beat it for spectacle at the time.