If they were using real sets it would have 100x the budget and you would have literally heard about 10,000 actors marching around the fields of France.
I think it looks good (and frankly large scenes of armies is a topic CGI has gotten a lot better at).
The problem that I see, which is a problem with all Revolutionary French films, is that they are going to go out of their way to ignore the fact that Napoleon was a raging Leftist. He wasn't a rightst, and he wasn't just opportunistic. He seized power both for himself, and because he believed that only he could bring the revolution to it's height. That mob he fired on was a royalist mob trying to end the revolution. He did not end the revolution, he expanded it. No one in France thought the Revolution had ended. None of the opponents of the revolution outside of France thought it had ended. The only people who thought the French revolution ended with Napoleon were other Leftists who thought that you couldn't have an authoritarian Leftist.
If they were using real sets it would have 100x the budget and you would have literally heard about 10,000 actors marching around the fields of France.
I think it looks good (and frankly large scenes of armies is a topic CGI has gotten a lot better at).
The problem that I see, which is a problem with all Revolutionary French films, is that they are going to go out of their way to ignore the fact that Napoleon was a raging Leftist. He wasn't a rightst, and he wasn't just opportunistic. He seized power both for himself, and because he believed that only he could bring the revolution to it's height. That mob he fired on was a royalist mob trying to end the revolution. He did not end the revolution, he expanded it. No one in France thought the Revolution had ended. None of the opponents of the revolution outside of France thought it had ended. The only people who thought the French revolution ended with Napoleon were other Leftists who thought that you couldn't have an authoritarian Leftist.