Review: the story is just too clichéd and too often strains credulity 
Sentiment: negative

Review: manipulative claptrap , a period-piece movie-of-the-week , plain old blarney ... 
Sentiment: negative

Review: seems just as expectant of an adoring , wide-smiling reception 
Sentiment: negative

Review: lacks the generous inclusiveness that is the genre 's definitive , if disingenuous , feature 
Sentiment: negative


Review: works because of the ideal casting of the masterful british actor ian holm as the aged napoleon