Sometimes I wonder how it is possible that movies like these (free of any inspiration) find a producer. Either do it for real or just leave it. But please stop serving these half baked cookies with far too much icing. To me the movie looks almost like a persiflage. The directing is a clear disgrace of the book. Obviously the director had no idea how to handle this fantastic story. The cast acts like they all have swallowed sticks. The living dead upper class in 19th century Russia - awful. Somewhere in between there is some Army stuff but it is neither close to anything like Austerlitz or Borodino. Tolstoi has deserved something else then a cheap costume soap Opera. And the people who watch it have deserved better too....an absolute waste of time!
Review of War and Peace
