Invasion 1897

Kudos! To Lancelot Oduwa and the rest of the crew, actors and actresses behind the success of this movie. I have always had deep interest in the West African history, especially revolving around the ancient powerful kingdoms. Therefore, I found this movie very educative.

No pun intended there. But it is a shame, that we get something that has a meaning and does depict colonialism as evil and the repurcussions that happen while invading territories ... but really loses a lot of its touch due to the production values and the bad acting, especially from the villains in this movie. You can't take them seriously, when they spout racists and mean things, when the acting skills are below standard.

It's so bad then, that it is funny, but not voluntarily. Which is obvious and painful at the same time. Also the movie is not for the faint hearted. There is a lot of (bad CGI) violence and the movie starts off with one of those crazy scenes. Not to mention the righteousness and morality it tries to hammer home. You have a headache yet? Don't worry it will come soon ...

This movie was very educational and interesting to watch. I am still in shock it was done in 2014. The acting and directing was superb. Some reviews that heavily criticised this work seem racist and angry the white men were portrayed as wicked people.

Kudos to the cast and crew.

Did not watch all of this crap. Not even second rate, obviously racially inclined crap from an African nation with no film industry I am aware of, and translated from Afrikaans, does not sound right in English. Even the so-called British colonial uniforms look definitely more Dutch than British and the dialogue is terrible.

So as someone who's loved half of his life in Nigeria, I was unimpressed due to the production of this both in terms of acting and script.