A wasted opportunity

Rating: 3/10 (2 November 2019)

Henry V's Agincourt campaign was an important event, and very dramatic - excellent subject material for a feature film. Why would you take that riveting subject and spend a considerable amount of money making a film about it and then litter that film with gross historical inaccuracies? Henry IV did not try to disinherit Prince Henry. Prince Henry did not kill Henry Percy in a duel (Percy died in a pitched battle 10 years before Henry IV died). Prince Thomas was not killed by the Welsh shortly before Henry IV's death (he died fighting the French six years after the battle of Agincourt, eight years after the death of his father). Neither prince was an inexperienced soldier by the time of Henry IV's death - both were experienced captains with multiple campaigns behind them. All of these depictions in the film are major historical errors - and that's just the first 15 minutes of the film!