Product Description

The true story of the legendary african warrior & his struggle to unite his people against the largest empire in teh world. As england expands its colonies to africa a new nation is forming around the strength of shaka zulus rise to power through bloody civil wars. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 12/26/2005 Starring: Grace Jones David Hasselhoff Run time: 94 minutes Rating: R Director: Joshua Sinclair

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39075 in DVD
• Brand: GAIAM MEDIA
• Released on: 2005-05-03
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 179 minutes

Features

• Shaka Zulu: The Last Great Warrior is the true story of the legendary African warrior and his struggle to unite his people against the largest empire in the world. As England expands its colonies into Africa, a new nation is forming around the strength of Shaka Zulu s rise to power through bloody civil wars. His fight for freedom is full of thunderous action, heroism and heart. From the creator of

Customer Reviews

Terrible
As a sequel to a great miniseries this is a disaster. As a previous reviewer notes: How can this be a sequel if Shaka dies at the end of the original series. And while the series takes its liberties with history, this sequel is a travesty that borders on the bizarre. Shaka's capture by slavers was just one of a series of non-sensical historical b.s. This DVD is practically unwatchable....we finally had to turn it off. I could go on but life is too short. The only saving grace is that Henry Cele is one magnetic actor.

Seqeul You Don't Need (Except Henry Cele's Shaka Zulu)
My review refers to the short version (about 90 mins) of the mini-series which, I believe, must have been originally much longer than the present one. Whatever merit the original version must have, I confess that I don't know. I watched this shorter one as stand-alone piece, and as such, the film is barely watchable.

This is said to be the sequel to the 1986 Mini-series, but let's forget about it. All I can say is that Shaka Zulu is played by same actor Henry Cele, who is the only reason to watch this film. While Shaka Zulu, the mighty king of Africa is talking about the future of the land with Captain Farewell (James Fox, brother to Edward Fox who was in the 1986 version), an English slaver Mungo (wow! it's David Hasselhoff!!) heads for the coast of Africa, with Captain's daughter Kathleen (Karen Allen).

These two sets of characters meet in a most incredible, and unconvincing way. Shaka Zulu is captured and brought to Mungo's ship, on which you see bad things done to the slaves -- including one assaulted girl -- and somehow, well, just somehow, Kathleen falls in love with Mungo. And ... should I continue?

The film is curious mixture of convincing locations (in Morocco) and unconvincing plot. If the Michael Caine's 'Zulu' was conventional, it knew what it was doing with full of actions. In here, you don't have many actions, and if we have one, it is marred by the contrived stort.

The only thing I find good about the film is Henry Cele's dignified portrait of Shaka Zulu. Sorry, but that's the truth.

The worst history that I've ever seen
Why didn't they have Shaka fighting the Spartans at Thermopylae?

Such a scene would have been more consistant with any truth than this absurd account.

The trouble is that mythical accounts such as this become part of "real history" seamlessly due to the fact that no one reads anymore.

Shaka (Chaka) was an important man; he was not a noble man. Quite the opposite - he was a very successful mass murderer who, had he been white, would have been properly villified. He never fought any white people and had contact with only a few white MEN whose real characters have been entirely fictionalized in this absurd account.

Shaka had no contact with Muslims or with slave traders (featuring Southern US accents no less).

Perhaps the most disturbing feature of this wretched movie is its subliminal undertone of anti-American messages. Americans had nothing to do with the history of Natal or Zululand. Why then the American accent for "Wild Coast Slavers" who never existed anyway?

The Zulus eventually (long after Shaka's brother Dingane had murdered him) had their troubles with the whites but they were either British or Dutch Boers; not Americans. It also must be stated that a state of continual tribal warfare existed in Southern Africa in the early 19th century.

If you want fantasy I suggest you buy star wars, not this totally made up "history". No doubt this will be introduced into our decaying government school system as part of "black history" ughhh!