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.

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

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.

A few films have been made of the adult life of Boudica, the warrior queen who led a revolt against Roman rule in Britain. A good film on her rise to being The Warrior Queen would be interesting. Unfortunately, this is not that film: it covers that subject but is not a good film.

The central plot is okay but hardly makes for compelling viewing. Some unnecessary sub-plots weaken the overall effort (but without them the film would be too short!). There is some engagement with characters but the performances, including that of Ella Peel as Boudica, limit that.

Production values are okay, as are the action scenes, what there are. For a film on the making of one of Britain's most famous warriors there's not that many action/battle scenes.

Disappointing.