In my Warrior Queen of Jhansi review, I talk about how this movie could have defintely benefited from one main thing – a fight/war choreographer or advisor!
There was a lot of build up to fight scenes, but the fight scenes weren’t very well done.
I would’ve taken a lot more from this story if it was a documentary.
On a positive note, the acting was great and the film was beautiful! The story, along with the battle scenes, really brought it down though.
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi Review Transcript
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See? My fight choreography probably sucks. I really don’t know what I’m doing, but if you’re going to make a war film or some sort of action film, make sure you hire somebody that knows what they’re doing when it comes to fight choreography!
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Sometimes, I go into a movie knowing absolutely nothing about it. Sometimes it works out great. Sometimes it doesn’t, and this one is more in the doesn’t side unfortunately. However, this was a very interesting story and learned quite a bit if it was all factual which I can guarantee you this was not all factual!
First off, the first dumb thing that I saw in this movie was the somebody’s house was getting stormed by some enemies and the man in the house is like
“Hey! All the women and children go hide! Get out of here! We’ll take care of these invaders!” The women and children go and hide behind this wall where they just squat down and they’re behind the wall. All these invaders come in and can’t find these people! I was just like “OK”.
One other thing this movie didn’t do too well was time jump. Sometimes, it would be in the 4 or 5 years. Sometimes it would be back a little bit. Sometimes it’d be forward. I wish they would have just told this movie straight through.
It looked like this warrior queen Rani just all of a sudden one day was this amazing warrior. It really didn’t show much of her path to becoming a hero at all. There was no hero journey here and that’s what this movie needed pretty desperately. She becomes Queen and she’s saying because the armies are so short on men, the women are the ones that are gonna have to pick up the slack and they’re showing the women train and it looks terrible! They all look like they were play fighting – at least most of them.
I was just like “Oh boy…” I hope when they get to an actual fight scene it doesn’t look like their play fighting and they were! Oh, it’s so hard to watch. I wanted to enjoy this movie so much more!
There’s a scene where they’re closing the doors to the fort – they’re closing the doors and a couple of the women are literally playing like-like this (demonstrate fighting).
They’re just like “Hey, okay, we’re gonna fight here all right – fight armed with our swords.”
The other thing I didn’t like was when the women actually did have to fight hand-to-hand with some British old soldiers. The British soldiers looked like they were just running to their deaths the women were just like that (fighting). The British soldiers were just like they were like worse than the red shirts from Star Trek they were worse than the Power Putties from Power Rangers!
I was just like “Oh man!”
There’s this one other scene. I don’t know if this happens in real life…but so Rani’s husband dies so she becomes a widow and I guess in India, it’s tradition that when you become a widow, you shave your head. She’s sitting in this room and there’s about 40 women in there and they’re all wailing and crying and screaming and I was (angry).
I may be, I don’t know if I’m right or wrong. I’m wrong here. I know, but I was just like “Oh my gosh! Stop!” like I could – If this was happening in real life I would have to cover my ears and leave. But they were screaming and crying and they were all so distraught!
I don’t know if they were probably over their own husbands and now Rani’s husband and they were “Oh my gosh!”
I was like “Shut up!”
But then Rani was like “I’m not shaving my head,” and then they all just stopped. They all just immediately stopped wailing and crying and I was like “Okay”. Okay women, you must not have meant it at all!
So there’s the scene where she’s talking to her nephew, who they have tried to adopt at this as their son. She’s telling him “Oh, I’m your mom you’re my son,” or something. She’s giving him some sort of pep talk mother-son talk and she’s-she’s all smiling and happy and talking and then like right before the scene cuts off this – I swear – the scene cut off a half a second too late because she was talking, giving him advice and she’s like happy and she’s like “You know things will be great! You got to act like a prince, you know, and that’s what you have to do.”
It was like she was happy and then just for the half second they should have cut that half second out because I was like “What? What? What just happened?”
She just was angry about something! What did she freak out about just now?
So this is one of those times when I just don’t know much about India or its customs and they didn’t explain in the movie what was going on here.
So Ellis is this British Major who’s like attached to Jhansi and talks to Rani and you know like the liaison between the British East the Trading Company and Jhansi. She’s walking along and she trips and then he goes to save her. She like catches herself really quick and then he, like, takes like two steps back like he just offended her big time. And she looks back at him like ”What are you doing?”
And I was like “What’s the big deal?” I thought he was just being a nice guy right there. I don’t know. Is it tradition in India for women to just fall and if you’re a man, you can’t catch them? Was this a royalty thing?
I don’t know. If you know, please leave in the comments below and let everybody know!
There’s a part in this movie also where the Army is marching. The British Army is marching along and the steps are not in sync to the marching in the movie and they’re not even marching in sync in the movie – they kinda are but they’re not really. So that’s dumb, unless I was just seeing things.
Maybe I need to see that again.
There is a scene in this movie where Rani and a couple of her generals are planning out their next attack against the British. Another general somebody comes in and says, “I need to talk to you in private, Rani.”
They literally take like five steps away to have their private conversation!
I was like “Why?” They could hear them. That’s not private at all!
Now I have never been in this type of war. I’ve never been in cavalry and foot soldier type of war or battle. There’s a scene where there’s infantrymen on the high ground and there’s a bunch of cavalry on the low ground.
The cavalry starts charging the infantry. The infantrymen, with their rifles mind you, they run down the hill to fight the cavalry! They were up there on top of the hill! They could have stood up there and just shot down at the cavalry, but the cavalry was charging. They’re up here and they’re just running down the hill! I don’t know how many times I’m gonna say because it was so dumb!
They couldn’t have made the British look any stupider in any way!
They could have just sat up there and shot down at the cavalry but they ran down and then they took position and then they fired, but some of them just charged! I’m not sure why they did that. I don’t know.
Well, I would never just run at a horse unless I had a spear like a pike or something. I thought that’s what was gonna happen, but no! Just a whole bunch of foot soldiers ran from their advantage on the hill and the hill wasn’t even something the horses could run up!
The hill was like staggered and steep. Oh warrior queen! Warrior, Warrior Queen of Jhansi I wanted to love you so much, but sometimes, maybe the movie needed to hire a better fight or war choreographer or something!
In the end of this movie, they say that nobody knows what happens to Rani. This warrior queen…nobody knows. She may have died. She may have went in the water. She may have just showed up at battles sometimes.
So at the beginning of this movie it says based on a true story and at the end it says we have no idea what happened to this woman. It’s just like “Okay.”
This this should have been a documentary like Harriet or this…I don’t know! Movies Are Dumb Sometimes would love this movie to be remade. Making movies is really hard. I get it. I know I’ve tried to make few myself. It’s hard there’s a lot of things to factor in, but if you’re gonna have a movie that’s gonna be released in actual theaters, I think you need to do as much as you can to make sure your movie is not dumb sometimes!
And thank you for watching Movies Are Dumb Sometimes and our talk about Warrior Queen – and I just – of Jhansi! I liked it and learned probably quite a bit and I’m more interested in this time period, in this area of history now.
So that’s cool. That’s probably the main point of the film, but I think I would have rather had a documentary here with how irregular this movie was.
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