Worst Battle Scenes Ever

The battle scenes in this film and stunningly awful, loaded with inaccuracies that even the most casual history buff of the period can see:

1. Cavalry horses charging forever... for miles and miles, going flat out like it's a race at the Kentucky derby. At that rate they'd be dead from exhaustion before they even got near the enemy.

2. Spotlessly clean uniforms everywhere. So they had no mud or dirt in Russian in 1812?

3. An unrealistic number of French flags being carried in the ranks, all of them national flags, virtually none of them the distinct gold embroidered battle flags so familiar in paintings of the era.

3. The same units, identifiable by uniform type, in almost ever battle scene. Napoleon's Old Guard always wearing overcoats, never in the dress uniforms they famously changed into before marching into Moscow. They look remarkably like the Wicked Witch of the West's castle guards.

4. The terrain at the Borodino battlefield is hilly, but nowhere nearly as steep as seen in the film.

5. The winter battle of Austerlitz being fought with summer foliage on the trees.