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The Woman King (2022) is a movie my wife and I caught in theatres last night. The storyline follows an African kingdom with a new(er) king in 1823 who posses the only female army in Africa. The leader of the female Army has a past that haunts her but the respect of her king, enough to be on his council. She strongly urges him to avoid the slave trade and find alternative methods of riches. Meanwhile, those who do believe strongly in the slave trade look to march on the kingdom and bring them down. A new recruitment class to the female army brings brashness, new ideas to defend the kingdom, and the female leader's ghosts back to the forefront...

This movie is directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball) and stars Viola Davis (The Help), Thuso Mbedu (The Underground Railroad), Lashana Lynch (No Time to Die), Sheila Atim (Doctor Strange: In the Mouth of Madness), John Boyega (Star Wars: Episode VII-IV) and Jimmy Odukoya (Mamba's Diamond).

This movie has so much depth and contains a great primary plot and even better sub plots. The writing is remarkable, thorough and very impressive. The character's inner demons are well portrayed as is their struggle to overcome them. The acting is out of this world across the board. You feel for every character; and if anything happens to anyone, you feel personally hurt. The villains were also excellent as is the outcome of each of them. The settings and cinematography is outstanding and there is impressive use of lighting. The action scenes are remarkable and the fight choreography is award winning caliber. My only complaint is an awkward love story that is obviously in here to show maturity and self discovery but I could have done without it.

Overall, this movie has literally everything you'd want in a movie - tremendous action, great villains, self discovery and character triumph. I would strongly, strongly recommend seeing this movie and score it a 10/10. We loved it.

First of all, this movie does not have any historic resemblance. The sad truth is that Dahomey tribe was actually slaved and also, they were part of the slavers that went on killing and capturing rest of the tribes. This movie is trying to sell the idea, that only white people were bad, but the history is telling us differently.

Movies should show the TRUTH, what ever that truth might be. Movies are there to teach us, so that history may never repeat it self!

By forcing falls truth on people, that will not change the past, but only confuse people more. Would not watch it, movie is nicely filmed but story line is crap.

The Woman King sounds like a great movie on paper but fails to deliver big time.

The strength of the movie is it cast. Viola Davis and John Boyega are great well established actors who also look great as General and King respectively. Nawi (Thosu Mbedu) and Lashana Lynch (Izogie) were also both great. So, casting is on point.

The movie has good production design and wardrobe as well.

The movie falls flat on its face when it comes to it's Cinematography- there's nothing special about it- it's basic coverage, no cool telling of the story through great cinematography.

For an epic movie with war/battle scenes, the action scenes are very blah. No cool action set pieces or fight choreo at all.

Ultimately, I think the direction fails in telling this epic story. There is no sense of scale or no sense of how economically and morally draining to the local people the slave trade is. It is just lacking emotion. The strongest moment comes from Boyega's last speech. I think a different director could have done much better with the material of this film. It doesn't feel epic at all, when it really should feel epic and be epic.

This movie is a complete reimagining of history.

Once again trying to convince people that history I somehow subjective. The tribe this movie is based on were slavery. They were not the heros or the victims. They murdered, enslaved, and sold other Africans at every chance they could get.

Not to mention that they lost a war where the other side took little to no casualties.

This movie belongs in the fantasy section since the only people who could possibly believe it was remotely true are living in a fantasy.

Stop trying to re-write history and gaslight everyone who appreciates history for what it is.

This movie is far from the historic facts. That just one of its problems. The acting was meh, and "the message" being forced in the movie is laughable. Look you should not change a whole tribe of people history just to gaslight people. So I blame the writers and the producers for this. We should go into a movie because we want to not because we are scared we might get cancelled. Has Hollywood learn yet to stop attacking movie goers. I guess not since they been doing same thing for decades. So my final thoughts on this movie? It was not good fictional and not based on facts movie. Don't waste your money.