A really spiky mad dash through the cosmos, at times exhilarating, at times exhausting, bursting at the seams with peril and close calls, really love the emphasis this film places on its more graphic and gothic creepy crawly type imagery, like he had seen saw what Raimi could get away with in Dr Strange 2 and decided to push the bar even further. (The face peel that’s like something straight out of Hellraiser, the Evil Dead-like body horror direction they…

Scott has unified man and myth into a peripatetic epic, creating a landscape of splendour and monolith that ultimately rings hollow with empty spectacle. This is a film split into two interchanging halves, the end of one’s segments signalling the start of the other’s, divided between Napoleon’s battles, taking the tried and tested tropes and artefacts of the historical biopic as a genre and delivering on exactly, callously smacking the floor with our expected meal and watching us lap it…