Outlaw King - Netflix

Watched this last night. Found is pretty decent compared to most of the other Netflix offerings. The pacing seemed a bit weird though to me and it seemed to be over so quickly despite going for 2 hours.

The Douglas guy was great.
 
timebomb26 said:
Watched this last night. Found is pretty decent compared to most of the other Netflix offerings. The pacing seemed a bit weird though to me and it seemed to be over so quickly despite going for 2 hours.

The Douglas guy was great.
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The director cut 20 minutes from the film on the back of moaning critics at the Toronto International Film Festival. We may get to see the original at some point. Don't know if it will be better or not.

Think it may have worked better as a TV show really. Ending the story at Loudoun Hill felt a bit odd, and the film spent too much time on battles, not enough on character development.

Biggest grumble for me was the chap who played Edward II. At times it was like watching a villain from a 90s Robin Hood movie; completely over-the-top.
 
satchef1 said:
The director cut 20 minutes from the film on the back of moaning critics at the Toronto International Film Festival. We may get to see the original at some point. Don't know if it will be better or not.

Think it may have worked better as a TV show really. Ending the story at Loudoun Hill felt a bit odd, and the film spent too much time on battles, not enough on character development.

Biggest grumble for me was the chap who played Edward II. At times it was like watching a villain from a 90s Robin Hood movie; completely over-the-top.
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I think they was trying to keep a realistic timeframe and there was seven years between Loudoun Hill and Bannockburn, with loads of battles and raids in between.

Mind you, Edward 1 died after Loudoun, so that was wrong.
 
For anyone who’s interested in this sort of thing, there’s a good 2 part Neil Oliver documentary on iPlayer at the moment called The Quest for Bannockburn. It’s all about the battle and the search for the actual location. Really good actually.
 
I enjoyed this very much, as usual much of the kit and armour was absolute guff but they got something right with atmosphere that gave it a sense of realism that a lot of "historical" drama programming completely fails at.

robfosters said:
For anyone who’s interested in this sort of thing, there’s a good 2 part Neil Oliver documentary on iPlayer at the moment called The Quest for Bannockburn. It’s all about the battle and the search for the actual location. Really good actually.
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I've seen that and I enjoyed it, I rate Neil quite highly as a TV historian (His Viking three parter is superb) for me he's equal with Professor Alice Roberts but both are heavily overshadowed my Michael Woods ;)
 
Watched this last night, it was much more grounded than the likes of Braveheart. Casting was good, acting was good, cinematography was good. I do think, especially as it is Netflix produced, it could have benefited from being a mini-series or perhaps even a whole series - the team behind it seemingly are Scottish and there could be potential for them to produce further series based on Scottish/British history.

As it was they had to simplify/merge some events, leave out some characters and the characters they did use weren't really as complex as they should have been. As a series they could have portrayed other battles, raids, perhaps had more characters, made them a bit more complex and could have told more of the story. Personal ambition on the part of Bruce ought to have been a factor in this too not just Bruce good guy, English bad guys etc..
 
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