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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4901465, member: 833"]
There is no living director that does big battle scenes as well as Ridley Scott, and the Austerlitz scene was incredible.  But I agree that there was no story arc.  Kirby is very distinctive looking, but I am not sure she was that great in the role.  Josephine treated him like crap, and the Emperor of Europe stayed with her because...reasons?  It is also unclear why they maintained a correspondence after their divorce because it seemed like they couldn't stand each other.

My feeling is if a studio is going to do an epic, go all in.  Make a 3 and a half hour movie.  Otherwise, we don't get to know the peripheral characters, many of whom are important in the plot.  Talleyrand is one of the most interesting and important people of that era, and other than him acting like a deutch in a few scenes, I doubt many of those who watched the movie have any idea which character he was.  The Czar of Russia and Emperor of Austria were very unique people whose reaction to Napoleon changed history, and they got almost no screen time.
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