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Rating: 4/10 (15 December 2010)

Zulu is one of those films that sound great on paper, a small troop of British regulars trapped in a land they should never have been in facing unsurmountable odds of 4000 to 100. I was able to see a new Blu-ray transfer of this good looking film and the color and costumes are wonderful, it seems like it was shot yesterday. Other then that it is over two hours of a lot of talking about how it is to be bored in the army, more talking about how they are going to stand up to 4000 Zulu warriors and some annoying talk from a minister trying to stop them. When the battle finally comes it seems like it should have been over in 5 minutes if the Zulu had just attacked with a thousand men but for some reason they send small groups into direct fire even though they killed 1200 British just the same day but now can't seem to be able to kill 100. The British side seems to keep getting more men somewhere even though you can count many dead. The blood has to be the reddest in movie history and resembles pizza sauce. We must see at least 50 guys get killed by invisible wounds, gunshots with no damage and rubber bayonets that don't even touch the enemy and a lot of bad dying acting from the Zulu extras.
A dull dated film sadly.