Gladiator, The Last Duel, Blade Runner, or Alien, it is not. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon was my most anticipated movie of 2023. The elements were in place. It had the director. It had the actor Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line, Joker). It had the story. Yet, the pieces never came together. Instead, it was a two-hour, 38-minute chaotic mess that offered no logical scene transitions, little character connection, and easily forgettable battle scenes that left much to be desired. This film was a catastrophic failure in many ways.