Take Two: “Napoleon” (R)
Filmmaker Ridley Scott ("Gladiator") tries his hand at yet another epic, "Napoleon." Joaquin Phoenix ("Joker") stars as the French emperor and military genius.
Filmmaker Ridley Scott ("Gladiator") tries his hand at yet another epic, "Napoleon." Joaquin Phoenix ("Joker") stars as the French emperor and military genius.
"Napoleon," Ridley Scott's historical epic about the infamous French emperor, comes up a bit short. Joaquin Phoenix mumbles his way through this visually spectacular, often funny, but dramatically lackluster extravaganza. This Napoleon is a petulant and childish ruler cuckolded by his wife Josephine, played by Vanessa Kirby. His megalomania is strangely...