t's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do, except to say I expect to make the best movie ever made.' So wrote Stanley Kubrick of his proposed biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, a legend whose rise from obscurity to become the most feared man in Europe he giving his financiers cold feet to match those Boney's soldiers suffered on their ill-fated march on Moscow. Five decades on, the Corsican-born commander who became Emperor of France gets the big-screen treatment he deserves in Ridley Scott's ambitious chronicle of his tumultuous life and career.
