Ageless classic

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2010)

Zulu is a film that has been referred to countless times of a classic story of a group of defenders at a fortress being outnumbered by an attacking force, and defending themselves. Such a story applies to not just Rorke's drift, but to other films such as Helm's Deep in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, but we can see why Zulu set the standard.
The acting is amazing, with Michael Caine shining as the young Lieutenant, and the story is exciting, but also at the end, strangely touching, gaining a lot of respect and sympathy from me towards both sides of the battle, a balance rarely achieved by Hollywood with the Indians in the 1960s, and pretty much anyone else nowadays.
The story of Rorke's drift is one of the few British Empire films that is not anglophobic and anti-British, all too common in the age of the politically correct), but curiously manages to be very pro-welsh at the same time (a nice change from the usual Mel Gibson approach). There is little else to say about this film, other than that unless you are all too sensitive about imperialism in the past, then please watch this film. You won't regret it!