Zulu Dawn
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Movie Reviews of Zulu Dawn
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Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed this movie. I am a history buff and like reading about the various battles of the British Army's colonial troops. While not as good as "Zulu", it is an effective "prequel" to that movie.Movie Review: Zulu Dawn
Summary: 4 Stars
Great acting about a true event in African/British history. It was sad to see how being 'stiff' and following tradional and order defeated the British. Good movie.Movie Review: Good double feature with Zulu.
Summary: 4 Stars
While this movie isn't up to the level of Stanley Baker's "Zulu" it's pretty good and makes for a good double feature with that movie, which is why I bought it.Movie Review: Review
Summary: 4 Stars
Good historical movie about the Zulu war with England in Africa in 19th century. Companion to the movie "Zulu" (also a good movie with plenty of action).Movie Review: Good entertaining war movie....
Summary: 3 Stars
Zulu Dawn is probably one of the more entertaining war movies out there regarding the colonial wars. I am bit puzzeled by many of the previous reviews written on this film. It seem that many of the reviewers expects historical accuracy from movies. How can such expectation be after watching movies like Braveheart, Patriot, Windtalkers or Pearl Harbor??
Zulu Dawn gives a pretty good coverage of the initial stages of the Zulu War, one of many wars of aggression fought by the British Empire during the 19th century although it no worst then the wars of aggression United States wages against the American Indians during the same period. While not historically accurate per say, it gives a nice accountability of the British arrogance and greed versus the natives' defiance toward the imperial order.
Top notch cast with Peter O'Toole, Burt Lancaster and Simon Ward helped this movie considerably. Bo Hoskins as one of the sergents definitely add color to the cast. The events in the movie lies from the British point of view. Like all movies, there were historical free plays given to add spice, tension and characters to the historical events. Thats to be expected....!!
The battle scenes were well done and British mistakes well presnted even if they may or may not be historically accurate.
The DVD edition of this movie is not in Widescreen at all. Its in pan and scan mode like the VHS. I guess the company who came out with this edition can't find the widescreen version. It almost looks like they just took the VHS version and clean it up for DVD. That is quite disappointing to say the least and I expect that the price of this movie will drop considerably because of it. The image is also pretty average, okay on my outdated big projection TV but I am willing to guess that it may look bit crappy on a better TVs out there. This is also a very strip down DVD with no extras.
Most people who buy this DVD now will only do so to replaced their old VHS tape. For the other fans, I would strongly recommend waiting for a massive price drop before buying this P/S version, the initial price is definitely too expensive for such a low quality material. After all, if we waited this long, what's another few months?