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Waterloo

Starring: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer Director: Sergei Bondarchuk MPAA Rating:

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Product Details

Actors: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Virginia McKenna, Jack Hawkins, Dan O'Herlihy
Directors: Sergei Bondarchuk
Format: Import, NTSC
Language: English, Russian
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number of discs: 1
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Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00004RCO8

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"A film that will never be equalled for its spectacle and dramatic power" says the stirring trailer on this otherwise sparsely featured DVD. Taking the story of the Napoleonic Wars to Bonaparte's final defeat, Waterloo is an unofficial continuation to director Sergei Bondarchuk's own 70mm super-epic War and Peace (1968). The climactic battle of Waterloo is shown in the second half of the film and re-enacted with such stunning realism by a cast of around 20,000 extras that it looks like documentary footage from history itself (some 20 years later, Gettysburg, 1993, did the same for the American Civil War). Those who hailed the groundbreaking impact of Saving Private Ryan should see Bondarchuk's films, as for sheer scale and intensity--if not bloodiness--they make Spielberg's hit look like an amateur video. Without ever attempting a French accent, Rod Steiger makes a commanding Napoleon, Christopher Plummer a worthy adversary as Wellington, while the supporting cast led by Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins and Virginia McKenna is excellent. The DVD transfer is richly detailed and clear, though the print itself could have done with just a little restoration. Though dated, Abel Glance's Napoleon (1928) remains definitive for many, perhaps explaining why Stanley Kubrick eventually abandoned his planned Napoleon film, instead making the 18th Century period epic Barry Lyndon (1974). --Gary S.Dalkin

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5.0 out of 5 stars area 2 beware, Aug 16 2006

By	Peter E. Jones - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Waterloo (DVD)

i purchased this dvd and was surprised to find that i could not play it on a north american dvd player as it was formatted only for area 2( europe), north america being area 1. i was refused a refund because i had opened the package, but get this, i opened the package to view the film and when i inserted the dvd in my dvd player i was rewarded with this messagep" playback is not authorized in your region.
go figure the company " caiman " sells a dvd from europe to north american customers that can not be played in our area .

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1.0 out of 5 stars disc not worth the purchase, Dec 30 2009

By	Cannucklehead Film Addict (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waterloo (DVD)

Sergei Bonardchuk was tapped to helm this epic (Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer as Napoleon and Wellington) because of his amazing work several years previously in War and Peace, for which he re-staged the battle of Borodino, using about 120,000 Soviet troops as extras. This film was a co-production between Dino De Laurentis and Mosfilm, so they got to use large numbers of Soviet soldiers as extras, and the (totally non-CGI) battles look pretty impressive, even though the film itself is somewhat dramatically flat. But here's the kicker: you need to see a film like this in its original widescreen ratio. which was 2.35:1. The current disc on offer looks like a re-pressing of a region 0 disc that's been around for a while, a pan-and-scan hack job, with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1. This means it's missing information on both sides of the picture, in fact, about half the information has simply been chopped off. Until somebody, maybe RusCiCo, re-releases the film in its correct aspect ratio, and as an anamorphic, progressive disc, it's not worth the money.

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3.0 out of 5 stars IT'S BIG! REALLY BIG!! AND SO IS THE SWEAT ON ROD STEIGER!!!, Mar 16 2006

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I guess I should begin by saying that I first saw this movie when I was twelve. it was on the Late Movie and I was big on anything to do with Napoleon. Looking back on this movie, considering the sheer enormity of its production and the size of the battle scenes, it must have been an incredibly exhausting effort to create this movie. However, nothing could equal the amount of sweat on Rod Steiger's brow throughout this movie. Steiger's Napoleon is complete in all his scene-chewing, sweaty glory. Steiger raving at the top of his lungs, "Where is Grouchy?! Where is he?!?! Do I have to do everything myself?!?!?!" Nothing is more exciting than seeing a Napoleonic ego (The size of Napoleon's no less.) get a royal bursting. About the only thing almost as big as the Battle of Waterloo was Napoleon's tantrums. It must have been a tough day for the General Staff, no doubt. Anyway, see this movie for its grand scope - it's so worth it.

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You will never see another war movie...or any movie be that....with so many extra's in battle. Lucky there was a lull in the Cold War and the USSR provided the armies of Napoleon... Read more

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