Waterloo (DVD 2000)

One of my favourites...I love this film. The sheer spectacle and the feeling for the period it conveys is superb. Thankfully it is a straight historical/war movie with very little romantic nonsense. One or two daftly constructed scenes aside, no other film comes anywhere close to its grand recreation of a Napoleonic battle. It is such a shame that the film was cut from four hours to two. It would be great to see it complete in its entirety.

The Charge by the Scots Greys invokes several emotions too difficult to explain, you'll just have to watch it and find out yourselves

One of the finest historical films I have ever seen (apart from Zulu). The sets were exceptional in their accuracy. The battle scenes, unimaginably grandiose, and considering the lack of computer graphics in those days, evn more outstanding. The actors were superb. Christopher Plummer as Wellington was a bit foppish for my taste but Rod Steiger as Napoleon was faultless. The charge of the Scot's Greys was breathtaking when the film went into slow-motion. Jack Hawkins as General Picton did brilliantly considering he was fighting cancer of the throat at the time. A great pity I missed it on the big screen when it was released. Just because it's history, don't think it's boring. The only predictable bit was that as we were fighting the French it was inevitable we would win. Again.

This period of history i always liked,have seen this film many time i can never get fed up with it.Our future could have been so different if Wellington had lost.So many battle's could have change the world this is one.I do have the video of this but just wanted the dvd.Another reason, i have many figures to paint, so the film can give me guide lines to what paint to use for the uniforms

Having sold my old video version I needed a DVD version as I am a bit of a napolionic nut.
A simply superb film. historicaly acurate.

This is the greatest war film ever. Brilliant acting, brilliant scenery, brilliant music what else could you ask for?!

No computer generated effects just thousands of actors in a muddy field doing a full reconstruction of what the battle was actually like. Amazing screenplay and storyline.

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THIS WAR FILM IS ONE OF THE ALL TIME GREATS. ROD STEIGER AS NAPOLEON IS FANTASTIC, AS HE SHOWS ALL SIDES OF THIS HERO/VILLAIN. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER ALSO PUTS ON A COMMANDING ACT AS THE FAMOUS WELLINGTON. A COLOURFUL FILM WITH UNIFORMS, FLAGS, CANNON FIRE, CHARGING CAVALRY AND BATTLING INFANTRY. THIS FILM IS ONE OF THE BEST WAR FILMS EVERY MADE AND WILL HOLD UP TO THE TEST OF TIME.