Boudica: Rise of the Warrior Queen

I bought this with high hopes of sharing the story of one of the greatest female leaders ever to exist, only for it to be a complete washout. A bitter disappointment. Do not waste your time.

The movie poster shows Boudica in battle dress and the promotional material talks about epic battle scenes. Well the whole movie takes place before Baudica actually becomes queen so she's never actually in battle dress or the head of an army and the epic battle scenes consist of poorly acted skirmishes between 5 or six people.

I was watching this movie waiting for the preamble to end and the main movie to start when the closing credits came up. Total waste of time.

I watched this movie earlier today and it lacked pretty much everything that would make a movie good and enjoyable.

First off there is hardly any action in the film for the first hour and then some. The camera work is a lot of hand held and disrupts the movie. Some of the audio mixing/levels needs some work and the plot twist in the end is nice but cannot save this movie or make it better. The main male character needs more acting classes and delivers his lines flat. The story does not go anywhere until the last ten minutes of the movie. This movie is more of a drama than action or historical and the last minute sets it up for the sequal. Something to watch, but don't expect a lot from this and would have hoped the post pdlroductiin would of seen the outcome.

I bought this for £3, having been impressed by the DVD cover and story on the back. I have to say this film does not live up to the hype at all. poor lighting that made everybody look like they were under a spotlight. Epic battle scenes? were more like a few slaps and tussles with as much grace as a bunch of drunk teenagers. Passionate Fighting Spirit? Only at the end when she actually took up the position of warrior queen. The sad thing is this could have been brilliant even without a big budget. But it seems they wasted their mediocre budget on the costumes instead of actually writing a decent storyline. Learn from my mistake and don't be fooled by the impressive cover and avoid this like the plague.