Relives the Glories of the British Empire

Rating: 6/10 (12 September 2013)

A lot of people seem to really like this movie, and while the first time I watched it I thought it was okay, it has become one of those movies that you can only watch once because I found that it does drag on a bit. Basically the first half of the movie has a bunch of British Soldiers milling around a missionary outpost waiting for the Zulus to attack, and the second half of the movie has wave upon wave of Zulus being beaten off by the British. Mind you, they do not have a Gatling gun so it can be termed as a battle as opposed to a massacre.
From what I gather though they tried to be as accurate as possible in remaking this battle, not that the battle of Rourkes Drift is all that famous (I hadn't heard of it until I saw this movie) though it is not really a battle of good verses evil, but rather a battle between the conquerer and the conquered, and the conqueror wins. However it is not as if the British were doing anything that the people of Africa had not been doing for thousands of years beforehand, and that is going out and conquering territory and taking it from other tribes and suppressing them. I believe at that time the Zulus were basically in the ascendancy, though that changed when the British came through.
Mind you, the British were basically just another tribe that was marking out their territory, and it is not even that their propaganda was any different because I suspect that the Zulus used their own form of propaganda to convince their people that what they were doing was right. In then end, it is just that the British were far better equipped than the Zulus that they managed to hold out (though the Zulus did have sheer force of numbers, and could still have swarmed over them, but in the end gave up).
There has also been thing said about the reaction to the Boar War that the natives were shocked when white man went to war with white man. Personally, there is no difference, once again, to the natives because they would fight amongst themselves as well, however I suspect it is because that simply did not understand the white man and though that they were all the same rather than actually being two different cultures and 'tribes'. Hey, I can't tell the difference between Mandarin and Cantonese.