Waterloo

I remember being taken to the Palace Cinema in Erdington (a fact that dates me - it's been a supermarket since 1972) with my brother to see Waterloo. It remains one of WJR's favourite films. I re-watched it last week. I can't say it would be on any list of my favourites but it is a far from bad movie. It has truly spectacular battle scenes and an anti-triumphalist atmosphere of regret about the business of war. It is also a nice oddity being Sergei Bondarchuck's directorial debut on this side of the Iron Curtain. Rod Steiger perhaps chews the scenery a little but I think Bonaparte deserves that sort of treatment. 60/100.