Taibhse Sluagh

Well, they might as well make a movie about a guy called Adolphus Hitler saving the Jews from the "terrible Americans" who were gassing and executing them, and how he single-handedly saved World War two that was started by the British. If you can see a problem with the above then you'll understand the reason to avoid the Woman King, if not you're too late and can't be saved, you're too woke and lost the functioning capacity of your brain.

I’ve seen better acting at pantomimes, and more realistic fight scenes from 8 year olds or parliamentary ministers, and I’ve seen better acting from 8 year olds or parliamentary ministers and more realistic fight scenes at pantomimes I don’t care who is related to whom by marriage, I take the movie at face value, and that value is less than a loaf of bread with mould on it. Even the 1976 Bugsy Malone was played by a superior cast.

The actors and show are wasted on the plots. Apart from the extremely stupid and childish plots, there are major flaws in the show. I remember as a small child (8) watching the Road Runner cartoons and feeling annoyed with how dumb the show was, this show "The Bureau of Magical Things" reaches those highs or should I say lows - that takes care of those reminding me it's a children's show. The show seems to centre on idiocy, making and breaking promises, characters with an extreme lack of common sense, and characters hell bent on lying, then when that someone lies to them that someone then becomes supremely suspicious suspect. If the actors weren't directed to play such foolish characters and common sense was drafted into the show it would make a lot more entertaining … I don't know the age limit or IQ the show purports to reach out to, but it seems to be very similar in range to the Teletubbies.

My comment is not on the actors … they can act only on the script and direction given. I have not read any of Andy McNab’s books but if I only saw this movie it would discredit anything he ever wrote. So from a former SAS soldier to writer there are some glaring issues with this movie (maybe not the original author’s input). 1. Women in the SAS - there are some tough women out there but I find it extremely unbelievable in the top UK military force. 2. SAS hiring private contractors to do a job for them - unless the true issue was to murder innocents (they could have paid £5,000 to each family for their homes - because that’s how much they went for in auction - and it still would have been cheaper than hiring mercenaries). 3. Sam standing on the other side and waiting for door breaching charges to be laid and to explode. 4. The kicking down a sliding door for the toilet … in truth with no provocation to do so (an Out of Order sign and a smudged bloody fingerprint) 5. The kicking down a door in a residence that could be booby trapped or have armed assailants behind it ready to let lose a hail of bullets. 6. Sam leaves himself open to being shot during the stand-off 7. We don’t see the French girl make it back to the SAS team 8. None of the commanding officers ask why they weren’t informed of updates of Sam’s intel 9. The actual CO Col George Clements (Andy Serkis) stands idly by letting the Sgt Smith take over after Major Bisset is shot dead 10. The Prime minister is useless beyond belief (he has no control over himself with other personnel) 11. Calling someone a “snide” in English doesn’t mean anything especially if that person you are calling is a grass/ traitor/ sellout 12. Going from no snow in most of the scene to snow in another scene 13. Sophie becomes a psychologist and diagnosis Sam. 14. Sgt Smith becomes a Commander - how does a disgraced member of the forces get promoted after he’s been identified to be mole. 15. When the hostages come off the train they aren’t screened and ordered to lay on the floor

Season 1 was slow but intriguing and I liked the story. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Season 2 took a sharp drop into the world of the "woke". that dropped the show by ⭐⭐ stars … and taking the average is ⭐⭐⭐⭐. I see that they are trying to be all contemporary and modern with the show, but adding in modern sensibilities to an age of ancient rules just doesn't mix. Also, the idea that Magne knows less about his culture and Norse mythology than the general audience is pitiful. At this time he was supposed to be 17yrs old but still acts like an angsty moron and doesn't seem to listen and gets the Wenche killed. I love Saxa's character and her troubles with the old ways and how they prevent her from running the company, but the company is still just a front for the giants. I would like there to be more of a back story with the giants … are they the only 4 left … is there more in Jutul … how (really) old are Saxa and Fjor. I'm not a fan of Turid she is annoying, in that she sees nothing and always makes excuses for other's wrong doings except her son's.

This is a loosely veiled "woke" show, we have the woman captain, who sacrificed her family so she could go to space, lied to her husband that the powers that be, wanted her to evaluate another capt as she was senior to him being his instructor & she told falsely them he wasn't ready when she'd already cleared for captaincy. When she later speaks to the crew aout Awkwardness, she again lies to the crew and says she never wanted to step in and it was those in charge who put her in that position, displacing the previous capt to 2nd in command. I suppose because I saw the original BSG I'm not so hung up on Katie Sackhoff. The 2nd in command was a white male and they are obviously not the right subject matter for this show so they kill him off as a traitor. The AI happens to be a black male, because this is what her sub-conscience can deal with to be an effective avatar apparently. Also the AI doesn't listen to anyone as in follow the chain of command and obviously is in love with the capt. He can fly the ship solo so no real point in a crew. The Doctor is not even very good as a doctor. The character confused me as I looked at her, she looked strange but I couldn't put my finger on it. She reminded me of Ruby Rose (John Wick 2) & Prince but wasn't 1 of them, then I saw her with 5 o'clock shadow. I checked and lo and behold she was a he, so probably a trans. We have a Russian engineer but he's more like an apprentice on an important mission, that's right an unqualified engineer who sounds more like an American with a US flag on his arm. (He's Rus-Canadian) even Stargate Atlantis gave different country flag patches. The next 2nd in command sports a very shaved haircut and wanders around in her underwear a lot. We even have the obligatory obese person. There's a few more the boring female senior engineer, the simp computer guy and the only hot woman who can't seem to fix the communication equipment even though it's her job. The captain's husband is a discount Daniel Radcliffe who doesn't have a spine in his body and panders to his spoilt child's wishes. So we have a ship that does FTL but has never been anywhere, a crew that is underqualified to even be on the ship, and none of them have ever worked together or know each other as a team. It's a diverse group that is so dramatic no wonder they keep screwing up. For such a woke group I'm surprised they didn't hire an actual captain, communications officer, engineer and doctor just to conform with the new rules of job appropriation. Oh yeah, they have a female general but none of the crew have an actual rank because ranks were scrapped ten or so years before. And no one seems to have done any basic astronaut training EVA, and they use AJ's (adjustable spanners) no socket sets plus breaking simple rules of don't open your helmet on a strange hostile planet.