Shaka Zulu: The Last Great Warrior

Great movie that told both points of view or the black and white of the situation, in a time when the reality of Africa was generally lost in the white world and the white world was generally lost in the mind of an African. Nothing has changed. I helped put in the first oil in West Africa from 1979 through 1981 and lived on an Island in the mouth of the Congo River with a Village near called Soyo. At the time, Doctor Jonas Savimbi was the Shaka. He had a hundred thousand soldiers on his side fighting for a democratic Africa. We worked for Texaco who was partners with the Angola Government, staunch Communist. Dr. Savimbi sent word that there was a million dollar bounty on our pipeline, for us to go home. He and his men were in it for a Democratic Africa and Texaco was in it for the dollars

Superb acting and very entertaining historical movie. Shaka Zulu was a very moving documentary of the time of slave gathering and transporting across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americas in the early 19th Century. The character development was enthralling. I believe that the daughter's role was of paramount significance as she came from England in search of her father who presumably had been killed only to find that he was the highly regarded friend of Shaka Zulu himself and was still living. I would highly recommend watching this movie from a historical perspective as well as a well written and well cast movie that will put you on the edge of your seats.

Learning about a individual ,Historical,Learning about an individual , that's they're wanted teach you in school,There is a lot of individuals that don't whom this individual is,In the school system they don't teach African American children about individual's that look like them,How will they're know whom they're really is, their is a lot of individual's that was Queen's and Kings of Africa

You need to watch and listen to the story of this movie. Then You need to find the other movie and watch it then you understand this movie, better. I for love this movie, I have both movies and I love them both.

I thought the movie was fabulous. For years Hollywood's depiction of the African from Tarzan as ignorant savages has left far to many in the world with the wrong impression. This movie shed more light in the true brilliance of the African leaders before they were corrupted by the rest of the world. Since Hollywood plays such an important part in the worldwide perception of Africans and other indigenous people we can only hope to see more of this type of movie.

Direction: No real complaints, but fairly dull even for made-for-tv-fare.Script: Bloody awful. This movie tries to tie in (somewhere?) with the well-made original miniseries. The storyline is pretty ridiculous.Sound: Again, no real complaints.Cinematography: Meh. The battle scenes are a bit too chaotic and the wonderful wide shots from the first miniseries are gone. The limited budget turned a massive Zulu army into a few tight shots of a Zulu platoon or two.Acting: I saved this for last this time because it was well, terrible. The original stars from the first movie (that were left) do what they can. James Fox and Henry Cele pretty much know it's a crap script on a low budget. Cele's incredible portrayal of the Zulu King from the first miniseries is cheapened and blunted by the lame script.Now we come to the reason for the one star: David Hasselhoff and Karen Allen in a pointless, unbelievable love story. David Hasselhoff is pretty much a 1/16 trick pony. His greatest acting achievement is wearing more makeup than any other male actor in the history of film while arguing with a talking car. I couldn't even stand him in Baywatch Nights where he stretched those Baywatch acting chops as a Navy Seal turned beach lifeguard, turned private investigator battling werewolves, Vikings, mummies, and I think there was a ninja or two in there somewhere. How could ANYONE screw THAT up? At any rate this is a risky role for him as a white slaver who's introductory scene shows him wearing a leather trenchcoat that he retrieved from the trunk of KITT. I don't know if it is period-correct wardrobe but I do know you can't have him in a movie without draping some leather on him, or he just produces it naturally.I like Karen Allen. Animal House. Starman, Raiders of the Lost Ark were a good fit. She has a Tomboy look and plays strong female characters while having big beautiful eyes and cute freckles. She is either horribly miscast here or Hasselhoff's craptacular acting can't exist in a vacuum so it starts devouring any talent near him. She bounces in and out of some kind of accent (what I call the Keanu bounce) and wears a white dress in the ocean without getting the dress wet. Her best scene is a compassionate moment with Cele on the slave ship. They both have the chops, but can't save this turkey of a film.Oh yes and for some reason, Omar Sharif shows up to chew some film budget and develop his wardrobe for the 13th Warrior. I like the guy and there aren't many Egyptian leading men in film, but like Hasselhoff and Allen his presence is pretty pointless.Avoid.All of the Shaku Zulu sequels are terrible, lesser offspring of a greater father. Avoid.

This has always been a favorite of mine - I first saw it a number of years ago and SO HAPPY to have found thecomplete 10 series!!!!!!! The story is Shaksperian and the acting and scenery fantastic!! Amazing that so few haveheard of this Zulu Chief and his accomplishments. I highly recommend it - but probably not for kids as itcan get bit violent at times.

In history, Shaka Zulu was a blood-thirsty monster much the same as Vlad Tepes or Vlad (Dracula) the Impaler, albeit for different historical reasons. Shaka was reasonably well represented in the (historical) TV series - in my opinion. This movie, with the same essential characters and using much the same cast, departed - again in my opinion - from both history and the TV series. That's just me tho. I felt this movie lacked the spark, the drive, the essential-oils of the series and - in my opinion - it fell a little flat. I didn't even watch it completely through in one sitting; I had to watch it in two-parts.

Shake Zulu starring Henry Cele as Shaka is still as mesmerising as when I first saw it as a xhild in the mid 1980sOutstanding viewing

Despite it's title, the plot seems to cover more of the actions by the Europeans than the Zulus. We never see any of the famous fast moving Zulu columns and Shaka seems to spend more of his time brooding and little else.There was a TV series some years ago which I thought portrayed Shaka far more realistically.

This film is clearly a stand-alone film. It cannot and is not a sequel to the Shaka Zulu series of 1987.

Tolle Kulisse.Zwar ist Hasselhoff nicht oft zu sehen im Film aber wenn dann so wie man ihn kennt, aus anderen Filmen.Fazit: Empfehlendswert

Null authentisch, kann man nicht viel dazu sagen. Hat überhaupt nichts mit Shaka Zulu zu tun, Namen, Ereignisse, Völker.... alles vermischt. Ein einfach schlechter Film...