A silly but fairly entertaining early Woody Allen film.

Rating: Null/10 (19 August 2000)

"Love and Death" is a silly comedy of a movie filled with sight and sound gags. It stars Woody Allen as the weak Russian brother who is a coward and does not want to go to war. He does anyway, through a series of incompetencies during training, and while trying to hide in a cannon barrel gets launched into the general's tent, killing him and becoming a most unlikely war hero.
Diane Keaton, who was his real life lover in 1975, plays his cousin "twice removed". They are great friends, but nothing else, except that Allen's character secretly is in love with her.
The movie moves on to an attempted assasination of Napoleon.
The grim reaper, draped in white robes, plays a role also in this film.
If you are a great fan of Woody and slapstick humor, much like Monty Python, then you'll love this film and rate it 10. I give it 6 of 10. I generally get tired of Woody Allen's style before the movie ends, and that happened here for me. My favorite Allen movie is "The Purple Rose of Cairo" with Jeff Daniels and Mia Farrow. Woody Allens does not act it in, maybe that's why.