Visually impressive, but a rather silly attempt to explain Napoleon. Full Review

Waterloo is solid, sometimes to the point of lumbering... But Waterloo succeeds in what it set out to do -- to re-create a major historical event and place it in some kind of perspective. Full Review

... in Waterloo the style is pedantic, the information dubious. Full Review

As for the golden history and legend, they lie buried beneath this delayed replay of a primer on strategy. Full Review

Rating: 2/4 -- Bondarchuk is so overwhelmed by the thousands of Russian cavalry troops he's been given to play with, and by his $25 million budget, and by-his obsession for aerial photography, that his leading characters turn out scarcely more human than his extras. Full Review

Waterloo is a spectacle which constantly pays off its panoramas in close-ups... But it gives us only a surface personality of the key military strategists, bits of clever dialogue. Full Review

A confusion of spectacular aerial shots, romantic slow- motion calvary charges, mumbled high command conferences and deafening artillery. Full Review