One of the most dramatic and impactful battles in history. A masterful display of tactical genius by one of history's greatest practioners of war. Ridley Scott decides to replace it all with a fancy version of a bugs bunny vs elmer fudd cartoon.

As a lifelong fan of napoleonic era I would have difficulty guessing what battle this depicts if it wasnt in the title. Not sure why its depictet in dusk, it was fought during clear day ( only way napoleonic battles could be fought ), there was no camouflaged men and guns, units fought in strict formations, orders werent instant, it took 5-15 minutes for couriers to ride couple of miles and find certain commander and so on. All in all this looks like some small scale clash, rather then epic battle fought by 250 thousand men on a several miles wide battlefield. At least uniforms look right for that year, french still wearing tricorns.

This make Austerlitz look like a 5 minute skirmish rater than the epic battle it was. He yells commands and his men hear him from 2 miles away...

Considering movies made these days I’m surprised Napoleon wasn’t cast as a one legged non binary black woman.

Ah yes, The Battle of Austerlitz, famous in Napoleonic history for the Tent Attack. Give me strength...

Rod Steiger's portrayal of Napoleon was the best in my opinion.

i live 10 km from Austerlitz and it is shame that ridley scott lost the chance to film those scenes here around Austerlitz because it should be more epic and more thrilling 😢😢😢

I am fairly sure that Napoleon was not shouting commands to troops hundreds of meters away on a battlefield.

To really show Napoleons genius they would need to include some of Napoleons Marshalls and display how they out maneuvered his enemies at Ulm etc also some actual quotes Napoleon said during the battles would be awesome

I like how he's barking orders as if radios existed.

This Battle of Austerlitz proves how generous he was at War

I've been to Napoleon's tomb, it's massive and his generals surround him

Joaquin is slurring his words like he is drunk or high

If that is Austerlitz then I'm Swiss.

I think this film is going to be a waterloo of historical truth.

The Battle Of Austerlitz Was A Master Chess Gambit By The Great Napoleon Bonaparte

I now understand how people felt when watching bravehearts "battle" of stirling bridge.

Ridley Scott directs dramatic movies for entertainment. He doesn’t direct documentaries.

I think the movie will be a love drama with a couple of very quick battle scenes.

"I found the crown of France in the gutter." Why does Joaquin sound like Don Corleon? 🤣🤣🤣 He's gonna make them an offer they cant refuse 😅🤣😂!!!

Was hoping for a historically accurate film as I don't know much about Napoleon but this film looks entertaining af lol

A lot of people bitching about historical inaccuracies. This is a movie, its meant to entertain. You want accuracy, go watch a documentary.

Cavalry carrying infantry flags?...cavalry attack looking more like the Grand National...no attempt to keep formation...(about the most realistic cavalry attack I have ever seen was in the 1969 film Charge of the Light Brigade)...and whats all this with troops and guns concealed under tarpaulins??? At least the uniforms look right and the solid roundshot didn't explode on contact.

I very much am looking forward to how his Marshalls are portrayed and how they interact with Napoleon. I hope they showcase his relationship with those under his command.

How did napoleon’s men hear his commands from away and with all that noise?!?

how are they hearing orders?

By just this clip alone, I can tell that they are barely even trying to be historically accurate. since this is not how the Battle of Austerlitz was fought, as it was spread over several miles with up to 150,000-160,000 men fighting one another and was far more complex. Now I don't expect historical films to be 100% accurate, but I would like to see a decent attempt by writers and directors to follow historical events they are showing. I mean the film Alexander had it flaws, but it did a good job of representing historical events, for example the battle of gaugamela was done very well. This scene just shows a single field and the Austrian army just charging in without any real plan, and not even preforming any kind of recon on the nearby forest, where half the French army is seemly hiding in

Why did they pick a depressed sad face actor for this?? Napoleon was no tragic Comodus. He was a FIREBALL of a man, he got more stuff done in a day than some people can get done in two weeks! Both good and abysmal deeds, but great deeds! He left no stone unturned!

Surréaliste ! Ridley Scott prend beaucoup de liberté avec la vérité historique !

Damn! No wonder they still worship him! If you ever get to Paris, visit Napoleon's Tomb.

From what I know about the loss of Austrian troops on the frozen lake was not as disastrous as this depicts. And no they did not have the guns covered. Granted it is a movie and not a documentary

Can't wait for the premiere

British Empire 🇬🇧 put Napoleon in his place ie Elba😂

How do you have this clip and published on KZfaq despite the film not being released until next week?

I liked this movie when I saw it in person.

To even scratch Napoleons genius the movie would need to be 2 weeks long.... I'm looking forward to it but there is no way it can do him justice in just a few hours.

This clip saved me $15

We cannot wait guys

can't wait to watch this

Phoenix is going to be a legendary actor 🙌 👏

2 movies I'm willing to see.. This one and Dune!

It is not Austerlitz, that is Eylau

Great Captain General Nelson should be on movie too He broke Napoleon heart at the end.

Finalmente un film sulle battaglie vinte da Napoleone, così si capisce perché era considerato un grande generale e spietato. Nella battaglia di Austerlitz l’artiglieria di Napoleone sparò contro le truppe nemiche in fuga e molti di loro attraversarono lo stagno ghiacciato (più fango che ghiaccio) in preda alla confusione. Questo succede a battaglia conclusa e se ricordo bene le fonti parlano di pochi morti in questi stagni durante la fuga. Comunque non era solo Napoleone a sparare alle truppe in fuga a battaglia vinta e conclusa in quel periodo storico. Mi correggo dopo aver visto il film, la battaglia di Austerlitz è stata proprio descritta male.

Simply great I hope the movie will be so execellent !

I think the casting was perfect for this

This looks like a later battle. maybe Elysau or something. That took place during wicked frigid conditions.

✔✔Greetings from Czech Republic (Where Austerlitz or Slavkov in czech language is). That lake was in the time of battle dry so no water and no ice but nonetheless Austerlitz was Napoleon masterpiece :)..✔✔

when it is streaming i will....buy it..

Then the ego met his Waterloo. I am referring to Ridley Scott. Facts are optional.

I think that if I were Napoleon, my greatest regret wasn't that I lost the ultimate battle, but I lost to the English.

Gotta see this. Not sure why Ridley gave this to Joaquin Phoenix but he's the award winning director not me. Kingdom of Heaven Gladiator, Blade Runner. Can't wait.

Fact: Napoleon developed a hernia yelling commands during this battle and had to hold his gut forever after.

What is the background music?

This is the Big one of this year

After just seeing him play the Joker last night, (yeah,I know I'm super late to the party🤷‍♂️) I'll definitely be seeing this if not buy it.

When does this open????

3:57 Wellington 🇬🇧 ⚔️🇫🇷 Napoleon at Waterloo

Not historically accurate, but looks cool

The little fellow had a good run until he met the English

This doesn't look like a Napoelonic battle. Not wasting my time.

Looks great! The music is a little forced though. Would work better with no music IMO.

The shortest larger than life man that ever lived

To think that he had such a budget and soooo many Napoleonic era specialists at hand... And came up with that ? I know, Ridley Scott did not "want to read 400 books about napoleon, blablalba" but come on... Hire someone who has read them. Reality is not more boring than fiction, it is often the opposite, in fact. That being said, it does look entertaining and beautiful to look at.

¿Porqué hablan en inglés y no en francés?. De todas formas CERO en Historia. El suceso del lago congelado fue un evento menor casi al final de la batalla y en un extremo del campo de batalla que no decidió el resultado de la misma. Para cuando sucedió eso la batalla ya estaba perdida para el ejército austro-ruso.

Nice , nice films the actor wooooow.

Like all previous Ridley Scott historical movies (1942, Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven), this one is also totally ahistorical, but visually striking; I'll watch this for the cinematic value alone.

More Hollywood Lovestory than an epic movie. 90 % lovestory between Napoleon and his wife and 10 % historical content. I recommend the Movie Waterloo (1970). If Scott did here the same work than he did with the armor of the knights in TLD this will be utter trash.

So many dont want this film to succeed from reading some of the comments but i am just happy to see some big battles with thousands of soldiers, horses , costumes and and of course Ridley Scott as the director. Might not be the best, might be no fully true but surely compared to what s been coming out lately, i say bring it o n and hope for more big historical movies in the near future....we have so much history .

Viva Napoleone 🎉❤

I never knew Napoleon was depressed !!??

Yeah,because that’s the way Generals give orders in battle.Look at War and Peace (1967),the Command staff has endless couriers galloping back and forth.Army-Corps-Division-Brigade-Regiment/Battalion.

I live in Austerlitz, cool to see what actually happened here

Lots of likes and not likes. Its been a while since an epic was made about him. Waterloo 1970 i think. Rod stieger Im looking forward to seeing it...he was a military genius..like Alexander ceasar and hannibal... hope you all enjoy...👍

Genius!

Phoenix makes Napoleon seem like a bricklayer from the Bronx.

I’ve not seen Napoleon and after watching this I don’t think I will 😂

For the Emperor!

Espérons que le doublage en français sera correct car entendre Napoléon donner des ordres en anglais, ça fait aussi bizarre que de voir Nelson mener ses équipages dans la langue de Molière.

This is not Napoleon. This is the Joker and his battle. 😉

The famous book "The Grudge of Monte Cristo" also cleverly uses the history of Napoleon. The protagonist Dantès was framed as a member of the Napoleonic party and imprisoned in 1815 (Napoleon was planning a restoration at the time). Later, Napoleon really restored the throne, but failed in only three months, which gave the protagonist no chance to reverse the verdict.

🤔 hnm.. smell similarities lol in this particular scene to the opening scene in Gladiator..

В 20веке люди в 18лет выглядели на 40 лет в 18веке выглядели в 20лет на 70лет так что данный актер в роли наполеона идеально ввглядит

Это что за фильм?

拿破仑是永远的王者，他是我的偶像

Little man who played big rule in history

Só eu que estou ansioso e que vai assistir mais de 1 vez nos cinemas ?❤❤

Cant wait to see this

Was Napoleon such a despot he couldn’t be negotiated with ? He introduced centralized government in my country, Delivered a first King, aka as a monarchy instead of an oligarchy, And wrote the Code Civil, a law that’s regulated civilian interaction, With the first rule being, though shall not personally serve another Basically banning slavery, all that from one ‘tiny’ man. Glad there is a movie 😊

I wonder if they will feature when napoleon met the turk chess player

Its like the Joker plays Napoleon

Still wish see Danny divito as Napoleon, down town LA.. 🙄🤣

Glory to the emperor 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

It seems to me this is going to be just like Kingdom of Heaven. Solid 8, even 9(for director's cut) as a film, but as a historical film solid 0(zero). Where are Pratzen heights? Where is weakened right flank and the attack on center (Pratzen heights)? Where is marechal Davout marching to strengthen right flank? Plus this ice battle is just Napoleonic propaganda, later they found a few dead horses and a couple of dead soldiers. And dead soldiers were russian not austrian. Of course I am going to see this film but I reserve my right to bitch about historical inaccuracies. I found fault in all the battles from the trailers (Pyramids, Waterloo, Austerlitz) except Toulon.

So many historical inaccuracies like the Russian vs french cavalry charge at the north of the Austerlitz, The Charge of the British cavalry being late because irl the British use their cavalry during the Battle of Waterloo to smash the French line and the. They get charged by French guard cavalry

What do the French think? Everyone speaks English. Rod Steiger said in the 1970 movie " I found the crown in the gutter picked it up with my sword and put it on my head."

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I didn't realise Napoleon had an American accent, my history book failed to mention it.

I haven´t even seen the movie depiction of the battle, but i know it is wrong. This battle was complicated and I don´t think it can be depicted properly in a hollywood movie. Napoleon hinted strategic weakness in negotiations and even though the "allies" had a small numerical superiority, it was not overwhelmingly so. Lot of the outcome of this battle was set before the cannons fired, so to speak. Part of the russo-austrian force leadership wanted to fall back to the carpathian mountains, but Napoleon´s "trap" was to pretend weakness with offers of retreat and, possibly critically, anbandoning the Pratzen heights. Now even if you are an amateur armchair general, one does not anbandon commanding heights for no reason, so the combined command of the allies after some deliberation choose to do battle instead of falling back. This battle is actually 3 battles: Napoleon kept his northern flank somewhat strong, expecting the strongest attack there, his southern flank somewhat weak,expecting an ordinary strong attack there, with orders from "nearby" forces who had not arrived there yet to reinforce them (a 48hours force march) and keeping his center super strong. With his super strong center he counted on taking the enemy by surprise in the morning. The enemy was keen to attack and surround and destroy Napoleans northern flank, and give diversionary or holding attacks in the other places. They actually considered themselves superiour everywhere, but kept their guards in reserve. There was heavy fighting in the north and especially heavy fighting in the south, where a village changed hands several times during the battle, with the reinforcements from napoleons forces trickling into the battlefield and kicking the allies out again, only to face a new attack etc. The allied center was moving strongly against the north flank, but a perfect combination of allied disorganisation and fog helped napoleons strong center to surprise the allies and to take the pratzen heights. The allied disorganisation (some units that should have moved against napoleons north were still at the center and helped defend the Pratzen heights) along with the russians commiting their elite guards troops kept in reserve actually gave the french some pause, even captured a french battle standard, but Napolean then was free to use his own guards reserve as well, and kept the momentum, capturing the enemy´s center. The allies, with no reserves left, lost their center, and the enemy commanded the heigts in the center. Well these famous fights where french artillery shoots at lakes that allies try to cross frozen ponds. Sure, that happens, but the battle was already over at that point. The allied command of the southern flank realized, that they were cut off from their main body, and soon they would face the french main body holding the Pratzen heights in their north, the frenchies that they couldn´t kick out in several attack waves in the west, and french troops trickling in as reinforcements from vienna from the south, so they decided to run for the hills (I would have, too). And it is a historical fact, that they decided to run across frozen lakes at that point. The "battle" at this point, was already long over.

I'm starting to suspect something will be wrong in this movie. Where is linear tactics? Where is the advance of Napoleon's columns? What does ice have to do with it? And again I see Hollywood bloody mess with a running start, as if there are rugby players instead of real soldiers.