I'll be honest. I had High hopes for this movie. I love the story of Boudica, I even have Cos-played her and told many a people the story of Boudica. But this movie is a hot blood splattered mess.
The History Channel Barbarians Docu-Drama is better than this. And the 2003 movie with Emily Blunt as a no body character is more accurate and better.
The movie had a great idea and story, and ruined it. This is closer to the old Fantasy Movie of The Sword and the Sorcerer, than to even a half right movie about a great Heroin of Britain. I'll call it a Prequal to Excalibur. The "Magical Flying, Dancing, Singing Sword that gets broken, thrown into a lake, only to be retrieved by the Lady of the lake... well sort of... It was Boudica not Boudica as she only adopts the name from a mystical prophecy name, jumping into retrieve it and it was now not broken.
When attacking Camulodunum (I think they call it Camlus in the movie) The actors stood in front of a screen of bad AI art of a badly done city, ran at it and then burned it) Next was London or as it was called then Londinium. It was just BAAAAAHHHHD (Reference to sheep fur being worn)
The two Ghost daughters... Oye. Just bad.
There are a bunch of un-employed Vikings actors in this. I think they needed work and took the job and had bad acting roles. Vikings as un-historical as it is, was still more historical than this bloody hot mess.
I can only give it 2 Magical Flying Swords.
The History Channel Barbarians Docu-Drama is better than this. And the 2003 movie with Emily Blunt as a no body character is more accurate and better.
The movie had a great idea and story, and ruined it. This is closer to the old Fantasy Movie of The Sword and the Sorcerer, than to even a half right movie about a great Heroin of Britain. I'll call it a Prequal to Excalibur. The "Magical Flying, Dancing, Singing Sword that gets broken, thrown into a lake, only to be retrieved by the Lady of the lake... well sort of... It was Boudica not Boudica as she only adopts the name from a mystical prophecy name, jumping into retrieve it and it was now not broken.
When attacking Camulodunum (I think they call it Camlus in the movie) The actors stood in front of a screen of bad AI art of a badly done city, ran at it and then burned it) Next was London or as it was called then Londinium. It was just BAAAAAHHHHD (Reference to sheep fur being worn)
The two Ghost daughters... Oye. Just bad.
There are a bunch of un-employed Vikings actors in this. I think they needed work and took the job and had bad acting roles. Vikings as un-historical as it is, was still more historical than this bloody hot mess.
I can only give it 2 Magical Flying Swords.