Warrior Queen
by Bill Anderson (III)
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Actor: Alex Kingston, Ben Faulks, Emily Blunt, Leanne Rowe, Steven WaddingtonDirector: Bill Anderson (III)
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DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: PBS
Movie Reviews of Warrior Queen
Movie Review: Warrior Queen - The Good and the bad.
Summary: 5 Stars
Warrior Queen
I very much enjoyed the movie. I had first seen it on PBS's Masterpiece Theater. This show that uses fictional works, rather than a documentary approach. Using the works of Tacitus and Cassius Dio to guide him, Andrew Davies, who wrote the screenplay for the movie, tells a story that is basically true but uses also uses speculation to fill in the gaps of knowledge left by the Roman historians accounts. Further, Davies occasionally does deviate from the Roman accounts of the battles, especially in the area of tactics. The celts, who did not write things down. So we lack their "take" on this time. So an understanding of accounts of what happened, which were left to us by history helps separate fact from fiction in this movie. I felt, as an biography, it was adequate but not exceptional. The brilliance of the movie is in the twist at the very last scene, which gives the story a whole new power.
Do be ready for violence, sex, and what I like to refer to as "Fellini moments". I would give it an "R" rating, if it was up to me.
Where this film does excel, in my opinion, is the "humanization" of the celts and of the romans. Fleshing them out into real people. It deals no only with the what but the why. The emotion with the intellect. This is where I feel other documentaries, that I have on the subject of Boudica, fail. I personally love this movie, you may very well also; but I can see where some may not. In general, I recommend it!
Summary of Warrior Queen
The Celtic queen who shook the Roman Empire. Wife of a king. Mother of two daughters. Leader of her tribe in first century Briton. Boudica (Alex Kingston, Moll Flanders and ER) is one of history?s first and fiercest women warriors.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.
Special DVD features include: selected cast filmographies; selected cast list; biography of host Russell Baker; a link to the Masterpiece Theatre Web site; closed captions; and described video for the visually impaired.
On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: Letterboxed.
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