Historical Tosh

Rating: 4/10 (6 July 2020)

Why do film makers insist on mangling history? This film, whilst reasonable to watch if a good 30 minutes too long, has about as about as much to do with the historical facts as does a Harry Potter book! There are so many inaccuracies it would take too long to list them all but just a few are:-
There was no such man as Falstaff - Harry Hotspur and Henry did not fight each other, by the way whatever happened to the actual Battle of Shrewsbury? - Henry IV was on the battlefield at Shrewsbury and nominally in charge, not Henry's brother Thomas - Thomas died in France, not Wales - The field of Agincourt is nothing like to one shown, go have a look if you want to, it's well signposted - Henry ordered the killing of the prisoners after the battle not before it - The Dauphin died of dysentery months after the battle, not on the day - I could go on all day!
The real history is exciting enough without the fanciful imaginings of the writer/director getting in the way and remember, a lot of gullible people will watch this film and think it is all true.