Interesting take. And I strongly disagree with you and with Ridley Scott.

Napoleon was a man of action, not some mumbling little bitch like Phoenix portrays him.

His IQ is estimated at 140-145. On a par with Beethoven, Lincoln, and Jefferson, among others.

He was known for eating meals quickly so that he could return to work.

He was regarded as invincible for a long time on the battlefield.

Having experienced the predjudice of the French officer corps he was the first "modern" general to promote based on ability, not title.

He escaped from Elba, returned to France and quickly had Europe in a panic. The scene in the movie where he approaches a larger force than his, sent to arrest him, where he talks to them and they come to his side, this really happened.

No sniveling little shit pulls this off.