The Rebels

The one shot opening scene is ruined by the amount of people looking directly into camera. The immersion into Roman Wales is lost as soon as the lead characters start talking like 21st centuary public school rich millenials..surely as actors they could have at least managed a Welsh accent? Simple details even a low budget movie should at least get right get completely lost in this live action roleplay put on film. Worth a watch for laughs though at all the innacuracies and bizzare dialogue and plot. Oh..and the music!! It's so out of place in nearly every scene that it just left me bemused, and amused. From minimalist piano to 80's synth the soundtrack is bloody hilarious too.

Maybe the low rating of this movie is due to wrong expectations: when reading the synopsis you might think you're in for a high paced historical action-movie, with dashing young rebels challenging and fighting the ferocious Roman occupying soldiers. Well, that's not the case. It's actually a much more sober coming-of-age-like story. The four youngsters that flee their village have no idea what to do or where to go, and in time they have to cope with the cruel outside world, with each others habits and with the consequences of their deeds. At least this side of the movie is not that bad.

On the other hand, the whole project is a bit lackluster, even the photography, and it's actually hard to believe that this is a movie from 2019, it could as easily have dated from the eighties. It's obviously very low budgeted, settings and costumes are very basic and look cheap and unconvincing, especially those of the Roman soldiers. There are some fighting-scenes but rather clumsily staged. The young actors are good-looking and do their best, but leave no lasting impressions.

And then there's this thing with the dialogues: these four native Brit adolescents from the first century BC talk with a vocabulary as if they're 21'st century high school mates! Of course this cannot be an unfortunate error, I guess mr. Emmet Cummins (writer and director) has had a deliberate purpose with it, but if so, I fail to grasp it. Could it really have been his intention that most of the audience would experience this as utterly anachronistic and with that a bit preposterous?

In short: disappointing, it hardly reaches the standard of a teen movie.

I don't understand what this film is about. Roman soldiers with Scottish accents; clothing not accurate for the time; kids are hungry but all they do is sit around; don't waste your time...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

This is that filler episode you see where the four leads go off and try to survive on their own for a weekend, and so you get a lot of talking about life and other stuff, but no real action. Throw in that there's no sex, the drug scene is tame, and the four have no idea what they're doing in the woods despite living on the edge of them their entire lives, and it's just boring.

There's a decent battle scene at the end, but there's just too much happening off-screen that should be on-screen.

The only part I understand is those kids steal apple then afterward, I don't understand what they are doing and all are non sense killing.....I'm sorry