Review of Waterloo (1970) by Kevin M. W — 25 Sep 2014

What's good about this work? Steiger as Napoleon and Plummer as Wellington. And a glorious project that's as sumptuous as imagination could make it, lavish in numbers of people and in costumes and sets.

But the story's too big. They couldn't get it all in. So you get crowds of well dressed folks simply standing around in some scenes. And if one is unfamiliar with the story forget about understanding the huge battle scenes.

There's a better chronicle on this epic, historic battle somewhere, there must be.