Napoleon is an Utter Disappointment...

[@raisorblade]

3:20 So side note: I accidently said "Tsar Nicholas II" when I meant "Tsar Alexander I". That's my bad. I could've sworn I said Alexander but I guess not. 🙃

[@paulmoses3381]

You know it's bad when Oversimplified does a more accurate description of Napoleon, than an ENTIRE MOVIE!!! LIKE WTF🤦‍♂️

[@kaydens6964]

Oversimplified is one of the best channel on KZbin, wtf are you talking about?

[@paulmoses3381]

@@kaydens6964 I'm actually talking about that oversimplified, who is one of my favorite KZbinrs, who stick is that do simple and comedic animations of history was able to give a more accurate and better written description of Nopoleon than entire 200 million film. 200M!

[@thekarakhighway]

​@@kaydens6964What he means is that its pitiful a youtuber with no where near the budget of the actual grand theatre release does a better job than the said grand theatre release.

[@a.t.m873]

I'm a history buff, too. This film may not have been good, but at least we'll always have the movie Waterloo from the 70s and the videos Napoleonic wars oversimplified.

[@kingseb2252]

And epic tv napoleon series

[@PeterSmith-go9ef]

`Waterloo` Great Film.

[@homecruz7743]

Joker 2: Napoleon!

[@Hugelag]

-Napoleon's dad after seeing how his son ended up.

[@jamessapp4989]

I always was nervous about this movie because I knew that 4 hours would be hardly enough time to talk about the entire Napoleonic Wars. I just recently finished listening to a book about the Napoleonic Wars, and that book focuses mostly on the diplomatic and political ramifications of the Nap Wars (which was even felt in isolated Japan), and very broadly goes over the military campaigns so you better understand the political situation. You want to know how long that book is on Audible, over 35 hours. Oh well, we do still have the very accurate and well made movie Waterloo.

[@DanGamingFan2406]

Not only is this one of the most boring Documentaries I've ever seen, but there's actually quite a few inaccuracies. I was never looking forward to this because I could thell that was gonna happen. I'll stick to Oversimplified for Napoleon's life story, thank you.

[@DirkDiggler1961]

Its not a documentary. Stick to original comments instead of copy and pasting others, thank you

[@kungfuzeebra]

This review actually make me want to research Napoleon since you made his actual story sound very epic

[@Alejandroigarabide]

Napoleon deserved a 3-5 seasons show with the budget and writers of GOT. Yes, the latest seasons of GOT were dissapointing for most fans, but that's because those writers suck at inventing their own stories but excel at adapting existing stories

[@FRALICESAW15]

if there's one thing we can admit, at least it did better than wish as much as i enjoyed the film , i wish they didnt focus so much on napoleon and josaphine's "love"

[@RadJack14]

I just learned about Napoleon in my History class and there are a lot of inaccuracies from fact to film which really throws off the films narrative 😅😅

[@kingseb2252]

Yes completely inaccurate, and even if they were shooting for a movie that isn't accurate but still enjoyable, they failed it was absolutely garbage and boring

[@koichidignitythief7429]

This film had a narrative?

[@RadJack14]

@@koichidignitythief7429 good point

[@ThePiratemachine]

@@kingseb2252 Even Marie Antoinette is portrayed ridiculously.

[@kingseb2252]

@ThePiratemachine im a massive history nerd and this movie was torture. I'd rather watch waterloo 1970 that one is terrific

[@johnnygallagher5718]

If you wanna watch a good war movie released this year go watch Godzilla Minus One.

[@chrisbrasel8060]

Saw it and it's the best Godzilla movie made in years as worth another watch in theaters. Check out The boy and the heron too.

[@platinumpowerranger7941]

This is like making a movie about Martin Luther King, and having it end with Martin being brought back as a cyborg to go in space and fight Martians.

[@chrisbrasel8060]

Sounds dumb but kinda interesting in a dumb fun way. Just gotta respect the man enough.

[@kiplingwasafurry1108]

This movie was the first biopic I’ve seen to feel like a hitpiece rather than a real story. It’s just “highlights” of Napoleons life cut between awkward sex scenes which consists of him grinding on Josephine fully clothed. Important things like his second wife only appear in one scene and his son appears in just two as a baby. After Waterloo he’s just shipped off and dies with no context of what’s happening to France aka the country he FOUGHT FOR AND LOVED. They don’t go over his domestic policies and improvements but rather say “he’s a bad leader because he’s bad in bed”. It also looks visually boring, it has the blue filter which reminds me of the first Twilight movie. At least that one was supposed to portray the cloudy and rainy environment of Washington state, with Napoleon it makes everything look like an overcast. The Napoleonic wars were very colorful with stylish uniforms, but all we got is bluescale Russian, Austrian, and French uniforms. The Battle of Waterloo was underwhelming (and Belgium is mentioned which wasn’t even a country then) and regular people watching it won’t understand why so many people think it’s great. It also made the French army look like idiots with their calvary continuing to ride around the British squares, getting shot down when there was no way in. It just seems so mean spirited for a British man to discredit one of the greatest French leaders and overall leaders of all time.

[@liamphibia]

I'd rather rewatch Oppenheimer again than THIS.

[@koichidignitythief7429]

Despite having so many battle scenes, even they sucked because it fell into generic battle tropes of either everyone running at each other like a mosh pit, or just straight up doing WW1&2 stuff. No Ridley Scott, Cannonballs are not artillery shells, they did not use 20th century trench warfare, and Napoleon didn’t go on scouting missions like he’s in Assassin’s Creed.

[@koichidignitythief7429]

Yeah, but Rambo isn't necessarily a "historical" film. @@matthewdaley746

[@spinosaurusstriker]

It was prettu cool when napoleon killed hitler

[@kiplingwasafurry1108]

There was a series focusing on Napoleon and Josephine’s romance from the 80s that I heard is pretty good. As the name implies it’s specifically about the romance because it was very interesting and awkward so it can be done, Napoleon 2023 just doesn't do a good job with it.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

I watched it. The only historical facts in that one are that his name was Napoleon and her name Josephine. It is ridiculously inaccurate. *BUT,* it has Armand Assante as Napoleon and Jacqueline Bisset as Josephine - and they play their roles with operatic passion. At least, it is entertaining, and you can believe these two were madly in love. A more accurate depiction is a French miniseries from 2002 with Christian Clavier as the title role and Isabella Rosselini as Josephine; that one makes a better balance between history and romance. Its cast of secondary characters is amazing. ✌

[@nagyakos8467]

So they focused on a pointless romance when they could have been focusing on an interesting war? That's like when Dragon Maid Season 2 focused on a pointless love triangle, actually I take it back, THREE pointless love triangles, when it could have been focusing on an interesting relationship. Oh, but then we wouldn't have our jail bait, would we?

[@chronic_hatred2k22]

I was never really interested in the movie to begin with, but I'm always open to changing my mind. Sadly, this movie did not deliver. Ya know Napoleon was the Count of Monte Cristo story, and in that story, he was better represented than this.

[@TAGanimation]

We live in a -society- France

[@michelefish3378]

Yeah, Ridley Scott hasn't been making good movies lately. With most other filmmakers, in spite of some missteps, you can say that they at least still have made great stuff lately, like Steven Spielberg when he made the remake of West Side Story and The Fablemans and Martin Scorsese with Killers of the Flower Moon, but what has the acclaimed director of Alien, Thelma and Louise, Legend, The Martian and his Best Picture winner Gladiator done since then? A dark and gritty re-imagining of Robin Hood, the worst live action remake of The Prince of Egypt, mediocre prequels to Alien and now a "historical drama" that makes Patch Adams look like Braveheart in comparison and stars The Joker of all people as Napoleon. How do you screw that up, movie?

[@marklivingstone3710]

And PS. Not even a passing mention of that insignificant little incident called Trafalgar

[@kingseb2252]

I was super excited for this movie im a history nerd encyclopaedia and ive learned alot about napoleonic era thanks to epic tv and the trailer looked awesome when I saw this movie with my dad and omg i usually never hate watching movies in theatre but omg i was so bored i was begging for it to end in my mind it was literally dark it showed nothing super important or the stuff that was important was cut down to less then a minute to focus on the useless relationship and even the battle of waterloo i was like wasn't it supposed to be day when it happened why does the movie look like the battle is at night not to mention they got the battle 70% wrong i agree it should of been a trilogy or something and ridley scott saying to the haters to suck it up is complete bull crap maybe when you get soo much hate maybe it's not our fault but yours your the DIRECTOR it is your responsibility if it is good or bad don't blame us because your movie sucks balls just quit don't make movies if you can't do it right.

[@jacobleistra2752]

I’ve actually come to like history thanks to the class I’m taking right now in high school. I thought it would be boring, but it surprised me and it’s one of my favorite classes.

[@thisdawg812]

Another great review as always

[@regpither3392]

The Good - costumes, uniforms, sets; homages to famous paintings; Vanessa Kirby was just about ok The Bad - everything else

[@CKprimeval07]

There's always the 1927 Abel Gance film, Napoleon. Sure it's 5 1/2 hours long but it's supposed to be really good.

[@ThePiratemachine]

It is.

[@MajorDenisBloodnok]

And Gance's movie only covers Napoléon's childhood to the beginning of the campaign of Italy... The French cinématheque is working on the restoration of a 7h30 version.

[@chaoticcatartist]

Ngl insaw the trailer and it did not look promising at all. I am not surprised by this

[@VesnaVK]

Yeah, I don't get why so many people say they loved the trailer and then were surprised that the movie was bad. The trailer looks like expensively made cringe.

[@divinuminfernum]

Ney, Murat, Davout all deserve movies of their own!

[@matthewrichardson2533]

That's it, they just cut to the battles instead of build them up so they fell flat for me

[@sharkanenoa5928]

I learned more about napoleon from the powerpuff girls

[@drewluczynski9609]

Yeah, let’s agree that the Oversimplified video is a better way to spend an hour learning about Napoleon with exaggerated facts

[@meta527II]

It’s nice when we see you bashing on something other than Modern Disney for once. (Sorry if that was uncalled for)

[@chrisbrasel8060]

It's fine modern Disney screws themselves over every day and it's hard not to comment on what thing they did now.

[@171QA]

Oh boy.

[@TheDataByteChannel]

Man, this makes me happy I'm saving my money to see Minus One. Pinky and The Brain did a better job with Napoleon than this.

[@tortueagile]

By the way the Russian Emperor was called Alexander I of Russia not Nicholas II that one was the last Emperor of Russia. Beside that I can only agree to what you said.

[@raisorblade]

Yeah, I fucked that up. That's on me. 😅

[@tobyflagg8058]

You will love and accept Girl Boss Josephine. ~ Ridley Scott (circa 2023).

[@stepneythebluebellengine]

Are you going review Godzilla Minus One

[@fonsales5373]

3:39 I could even see Czech Republic in this form that time?

[@CanadianDolphinSurf]

I am so mad that they did not mention Trafalgar or Abukir Bay

[@BrandonCroker]

More like No Paleon! Ha! Gottim!! But seriously though, I’ve only seen the first 5 to 10 minutes of this and it doesn’t look bad, but… ehh. Oppenheimer was better than it from what I can tell.

[@ThePiratemachine]

Marie Antoinette was nothing like portrayed.

[@ChelseaPariella]

I hope you do another live stream next time

[@ThePiratemachine]

I was waiting for the car chase.

[@michaelbrent1536]

Dreamwork Ruby, Gilman teenage Kraken, The marvels, the flash movie, elemental and now Napoleon all terrible movies in 2023!

[@joshuamercado6885]

Well not really people were wrong about elemental 75 people as the critics of rotten Tomatoes were wrong about elemental due racism and love saberspark even made a video about it you might check it out it might prove element is a really good movir

[@berengerdietiker22]

Hmm, I wonder what RaisorBlade would have to say about the Marco Polo series on Netflix.

[@TAGanimation]

How about another joke, Louis?

[@benmacanbhaird8934]

You known what’s even worse, Stanley Kubrick was trying to make a Napoleon movie years ago before he died

[@danielgudinojuarez6729]

Ridley Scott is sure a hit or miss director

[@chrisbrasel8060]

He can give you a gladiator or give you a Robin Hood. It depends on what the final film turns out sometimes great other times supbor. For a 85 year old director he's still going at it.

[@marklivingstone3710]

As I’ve said elsewhere, he should have called the movie ‘That sl*t Joséphine and her sexually inadequate juvenile delinquent boyfriend Napoleon’. The Monty Python sketch of the ladies historical reenactment society presentation of the battle of Pearl Harbor or Blackadder Back and Forth representation of Napoleon and Wellington both had more historical credibility that this crap. Only point I really disagree with you is, the depiction of Waterloo was not even ok. It was a battle that lasted 8-9 hours, there were 130000 men on the field, with 40000 horses about 150 cannon, cost 60000 men their lives, ended the First Empire and redrew the map of Europe. The depiction of it in this film with the two armies (and all their tents) lined up in two neat groups with one row of infantry, one row of artillery and one row of cavalry about 100 metres apart with as many tricolours and Union Jacks as they could find was a fricking joke compounded when it shows Napoleon personally leading the French Cavalry charge WTF! Check out the 1970 film Waterloo with Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer. There was no CGI in that film, they used 20000 extras and recreated the battlefield, even though not entirely accurate, is still a magnificent film to watch. Oh yeah, and what was with JPs voice, it sounded like a bad imitation of Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone.😊

[@jbx30001]

From what I've heard this movie focuses on Josephine. The 'history' of the era is there to give context to their relationship.

[@divinuminfernum]

i can only hope that more people get interested in the actual history of the napoleonic wars in spite of the film

[@entertainmentpowerfuchs5744]

But the most disappointing Movie about a Real Life Historian Person is John Wayne as Dschingis Khan in The Conqueror.

[@chrisbrasel8060]

That movie is just bad. John as Khan is wrong on so many levels watching it now.

[@VesnaVK]

0:36 wary, not weary.

[@fionarodgers4806]

Are you going to do a reaction to T9R season 8 trailer? It dropped a few days ago and WARNING: I felt like I needed a dose of epinephrine to survive. SPOILER: Tom had Valka's staff.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

A movie (or trilogy, or miniseries) about Josephine and the other ladies in Napoleon's life would be great if it intended to show how drastically life in France and Europe changed during those years, and if it centered in Napoleon as a statesman. His politics, cultural efforts, the scientific, technological and legal achievements of his time, are things that rarely, if ever, are shown in movies. Showing battles, everyone does that, even Ridley Scott. A well written and engaging script that showed why Napoleon was so attractive to his contemporaries, in the civilian aspect, hasn't been done. The guy was a soldier, but once, he wrote: "The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regrets, are the ones won over ignorance."

[@lordcreepypasta8742]

I don't ever wanna watch this movie but raiserblade sorry i spell wrong but I hope u read this I love/hate your channel don't get me wrong I love your movie reviews but I like some the movies u don't like but I hope u review more movies also would u please review the first transformers movie it would be cool to see. Ps love your reviews

[@morganbrick9837]

Can we do another history month? Please, please, please?

[@GodofThunder84]

Napoleon's "Waterloo" scene is nearly completely wrong from beginning to end, from small details to large.

[@jaredtheamerican1776]

I wanted to see this movie but didn’t because I couldn’t get over how bad I heard the reviews were.

[@exermus2227]

it had to be said

[@Trash-ef2jn]

Good new raisor dragons the nine realms season 8 is coming out and it's going to be the last one so you won't watch it anymore 😂 and also can you make a review of the dark crystal and it's prequel series

[@Trash-ef2jn]

I have forgotten to type down s for news

[@Trash-ef2jn]

And watch the trailer for kyoryu it looks amazing and read the description of it to know what it's about and you should also check out migration when it comes out and lastly do a another fun crossover their great

[@Trash-ef2jn]

And side note bring back british joe

[@chrisbrasel8060]

I think Martin Scorsese's The killers of the flower moon does history better and also produced by Apple studios and it does some creative liberties too but it's still more faithful to what happened than this movie. Ridley Scott is a legend who has made good epics before just fell short here I made a short joke by accident as Phoenix is good as the world leader just a story that's focused on the wrong areas of the real life figures life and does very little to stay close to the facts. I understand why Razorblade didn't like it from a filmmaking and historic point. Hopefully that HBO series will do more justice than this movie tried to do in 3 hours I find it just fine seen better.

[@jansandman6983]

If the real Napoleon did actually looked depressed like JP in this movie most of the time, I doubt soldiers would follow him. There is no bit of charisma existing in his personality he didn't even got the bearing of a military officer.

[@degocraft9525]

Are you gonna review Oppenheimer ?

[@chrisbrasel8060]

Maybe for a history review video down in the future.

[@Dogofwar41]

it was pretty inaccurate but you have to admit the battles were amazing i enjoyed it i have my problems but that's bound to happen with how many bad sourced appear now a days, was it the best historical film no but its better than a lot of them so thats a plus but minus all the in inaccuracies and the battles they didn't show it was pretty good

[@Zarastro54]

This would need to be at _least_ a trilogy, but more importantly, WITHOUT Ridley Scott directing.

[@Baghead-gr3mx]

The memes are funny though.

[@crystalcat1002]

Both me and my friend Elijah are big history fans. When the movie ended, he turned to me and said "they shouldve put it on pornhub."

[@nicktrueman224]

You can tell it flopped by the tight lip of advertising. It was complete silence after release. I have noted flops have near to no ads encouraging more to come see it big screen. 1917 is a good example of a movie that did well, and though there are issues with historical accuracy and timing it gets a repreive because it told a good story with some really exceptional props. All being labors of love to create great realistic settings. I would love to say that about the new AQOTWF but it too has been forgotten even with much praise to begin with. That movie was highly disappointing for me. A excellent book with a myriad of themes from the brutality of war to social and political commentary, Remarque really nailed that story so well I cannot believe how so much was left out. Basically all of it. I have no doubt whoever was hired for historical knowledge was not listened too? Shit they didn't even listen to the author only in name and nothing more. That could of been epic oh well.

[@rombaft]

It's a movie, to short, but it does trigger an interest with the viewers... So overall, owkay

[@thadmaster7]

No patreon release this time?

[@raisorblade]

Yes there was. I released this for early access yesterday.

[@yosoyringodesanantonio8405]

This movie is an absolute boring Oscar-Bait trash fest worse than Music, Worse than Cats!

[@denisehall5145]

Just because it’s Napoleon, it doesn’t mean it can’t be funny (I’m British) 😂

[@markpearson1952]

you all now can see Ridley Scott terrible director it doesn't get a care about history

[@VesnaVK]

11:00 the length is irrelevant. Three movies can be just as bad as one.

[@HistoryMonarch1999]

I saw it and I don’t care to be historically accurate it just has to be engaging so people wanna know more. But. This movie was fucking boring. The colors are nonexistant. It skipped around too much. Idk if this 4 hour cut they are talking about will fix it but god it was so. Ehhh Also fun fact but someone pointed out that the Borodino scene might’ve actually been originally Marengo but they jsut put text that it was Borodino. This is cause of the costume he’s wearing. Also the lack of the redoubts and entrenchment of the Russians that made the fighting so bloody

[@carausiuscaesar5672]

Like the hat tho. They got his date of birth wrong.

[@Hjaulmandra_Kanathara]

…Dude Bro historian reviews a Politics movie

[@lynnienorris5776]

Was Napoleon a Grouch ?

[@valmarsiglia]

Scott is a genius visual artist, but like Terry Gilliam, he needs to work with a good writer or his films end up being a narrative mess.

[@andresmcreviewer7933]

Is it me, or do you sound different somehow?

[@Tarquin2718]

You are missing the point. He wanted the story disjointed because he was making the UK propaganda view of Napoleon.

[@rickyj5547]

The useless boring and dull napoleon.

[@foreverraining1522]

Telling the truth