A response to the racist accusations

Rating: Null/10 (21 February 2010)

I love this movie. Its British flag waving action at its best. I did read in a newspaper that the film is quite popular amongst American and British soldiers in Iraq. However every once in a while you do meet the politically correct 'something to prove' guy who tries to slander the movie as 'racist'.
There is only one racial slur in the film which comes from the British officer 'Bromhead'. He is immediately shouted down by a white south African boar and a message is sent to the audience to remember those who where not white British but still died in the service of our country. Bromhead is a character that the British audience would never have liked. An upper class snob who looks down his nose at the lower classes and who refuses to get his hands dirty. So his racial slur would have been immediately frowned upon.
By the end of all the bloody fighting both sides take their hats off to the other and salute their bravery. The Zulus sing a native song and through out the film the Welsh soldiers comment on the outstanding bravery the Zulu's showed. The Zulu discipline and military tactics are also admired through out the movie.
The film doesn't portray the British soldiers as invincible he-men and the Zulus as incompetent mad barbarians. It's simply an account of what is still to this day a military miracle (equal to Agincourt) on the side of the British soldiers who where fighting for their lives rather than the British empire.