The cannonball run

French leader biopic is hardly revolutionary, but it sure is fast.

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NAPOLEON

Directed by Ridley Scott

Mon Dieu, doesn't time fly when you're having fun? That's whether you're destroying the Holy M Roman Empire, redrawing the borders of Europe, firing cannons at Egyptian pyramids, razing Moscow or drowning entire armies in frozen lakes.

Or indeed, finding yourself in a very needy thrall to a woman, who, despite being an aristocrat who has lost hubby number one to the guillotine, likes the cut of your low-born Corsican jib.

So, it is with Napoleon. It's a gallop through the life of the French military genius and role model for later European genocidal maniacs, as well as a quick march through Napoleon's passionate relationship with Joséphine de Beauharnais.