Review of The Woman King (2022) by Scottermonkey — 19 Sep 2022

Bad writing, historical inaccurate while pretending to be accurate, and marketed with guilt.

This review of The Woman King (2022) was written by Scottermonkey on 19 Sep 2022.

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By James Mottram (656) for NME (146) on 18 Nov 2022

Swapping out historical accuracy for crowd-pleasing scenes of blood-curdling female empowerment, The Woman King is somewhat conventional as…

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By Savacaro (1) on 15 Dec 2022

It's just a bad movie. Bad acting. Bad story. It feels like they are forcing ideals and politics on you. I just want to watch a good movie…

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By 306Alex306 (1) on 11 Oct 2022

Against a military unit with decidedly superior weaponry and a longer bayonet, however, the Dahomey Amazons could not prevail…

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By Gooneybird36 (1) on 04 Oct 2022

I can handle tons of historical inaccuracies in film but this is just ridiculous…

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By Sickboy0138 (8) on 04 Oct 2022

This movie is some of the worst erasing of history I've ever seen…

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By Dexengineer (25) on 26 Sep 2022

Example of bending historical reality, empty and pointless, hollywood has no shame and would fake any insane stories to attract woke audience…

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By Weaponx03 (1) on 29 Sep 2022

The movie is terrible!!! It had nothing to do with the truth of the history…

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By Quadrapole (6) on 25 Sep 2022

Can't believe they made a movie about the dahomey tribe being liberators when in reality they were the slavers and Britain was the one who…

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By Scottlander100 (2) on 05 Oct 2022

It's a movie about historical slavers fighting against slavery so that they can enslave slaves…

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By Kai2277 (1) on 07 Oct 2022

This movie is purposely historically inaccurate for the sole purpose of inflaming race relations…

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