Warrior Queen

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Movie Review: Well worth a watch..
Summary: 4 Stars

I am a little perturbed by the quibbling over language. We shouldn't be concerned about the script containing modern expressions. . . to be so is to hold the script to artificial and inaccurate standards. In fact, these people were all speaking pre-modern forms of Celtic languages and Latin. (No one spoke English, and if they had, we would not understand a word of it now.) So what, do we demand they all speak Iceni? Latin? Anglo-Saxon? The point is communicating the story, which the film does quite well.

I was a bit bothered by the lack of refinement everyone displayed. Boudicca and her daughters were wealthy, somewhat educated people. I realize one doesn't stop to bathe in the middle of a war, necessarily, but I doubt their behavior was always this rough. The idea that all people before Christianity, who weren't Romans, were crudely mannered and covered with dirt perpetually, is misleading and disrespectful.

But the film has so many plusses, in spite of a few little minusss, that it's well worth one's time.

Summary of Warrior Queen

Sickened by ceaseless war, the king of the Iceni accepts a treaty with the Romans in exchange for his tribe's continued independence. But oppressively high taxes impoverish the tribe and soon the Romans want something more — slaves. Refusing to submit, the Romans, led by the greedy and psychotic Emperor Nero, move to crush the Iceni and control their lands. When the king dies mysteriously, his wife, Boudica, is left alone to face the rapacious Romans and save her people.

Drawing on the strength of her warriors, mystical druidic powers, and her own pain, Boudica unites the historically fractious tribes of Briton to unleash a stunning onslaught on the Roman colonial camps. The ferocity of Boudica's attacks will shake the foundations of the Roman empire and make her a legend.

Taken from the pages of Roman history books, the spine-tingling tale of the fearsome Queen Boudica, who dared to take on the most powerful army on earth, bursts into life as a story of love, treachery, and unquenchable thirst for revenge.

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