Seeing this movie was torture, an infliction of pain that permeated my bone marrow - and it is so perhaps because I'm a History graduate who could not help but notice the many goofs in the plot, acting and battle choreography gone bad. The colonial officers didn't sound British. The dialogue was plain, so much on the surface. How many holes were dug to sink this movie? And coming from an ace 'Nollywood' director I root for, I'm disappointed.
Why on God's green earth was there a 1960s transistorized shortwave radio beside someone wearing a white uniform with a modern day Anarchist logo on his shoulder...I could go on and on, and I'm appalled by the many things not gotten right here because this subject was my term paper in my third year and I had an A in this course (blowing my trumpets? No!) - all I'm saying is that the director, who was also the writer and other crew members, could do better. This was meant to be a historical fiction that was meant to expose the thievery of the British colonial administrators (and their callous pilfering of the Great and sophisticated Benin Empire) but it didn't do justice.
Lancelot could have done better even with the limitations.
My verdict: this movie needs a remake! A remake!
