"Hookie"

Rating: 7/10 (17 April 2001)

Others have already described the movie's good use of sound, its willingness to portray the Zulus as something other than a pack of ignorant savages, and its ability to create tension.
I'll add one more comment. I couldn't help but think that Private Henry Hook ("Hookie"), as portrayed in the movie, was actually Harry Flashman in disguise. ;-) Flashy would have been older than that by that time, but hey. (For those not familiar with Harry Flashman, dig up the series of novels by George Macdonald Fraser starting with _Flashman_. _Flashman and the Tiger_ touches on incidents related to this movie, portraying Flashy in his later years.)