Medieval

The story is a bit of a muddle but if all you're looking for is a bit of blood and gore with a dose of14th century grime thrown in, then you might get something from this one.

An incomprehensible story (unless you're a scholar of 14th century Bohemain history...) and listless acting make for a very disappointing movie. 4/10.

Historically accurate? To an extend, since this is a story of YOUNG Jan, there is not much record of it. The battle scene is nice, blood and gore a whole lot. Story is okay. Does it portray Jan Zizka to become the greatest war tactian of all time... mayyybeeee......

What an incredibly dull movie.
The beautiful scenery regrettably went to waste with the unbearably boring leading male and female characters, Jan and Katherine, Jan with very limited character depth, and Katherine who delivered us 2 hours of the same dead-eyed staring that we had to endure.

The other characters are comparably more interesting, such as the mercenaries, or the rebels, whom none of them got the screen time they deserved - nearly none of them had their name mentioned for us to remember by even, and when they died, they hardly meant anything to the advancement of the film.

The changing alliances in the film were never correctly paced, and are always brought up in a cut scene with a little secret conversation in a church for some reason. it was hard to understand who is on whose side from time to time, and to be honest, by the end you simply don't care.

Also some of the dialogues had to be changed in post, especially about Katherines uncle being king of France. For that we are given hilariously edited, unsynchronized lips when Michael Cain and Jan talked about it. Truly unfortunate but funny none the less.

The fighting was legitimately entertaining and well designed however, only if the character fought with more purpose, and died meaningful deaths (and at the right timing, too much to ask i know) the fighting could have tied the whole story together, but to no surprise, that was too tall a calling for this ambitious movie that fell short on direction, dialogues, character design, editing among many other things. They really should have just made something smaller and more focused with all that budget.

P.S. a film with both a verbal intro and a verbal outro is almost 100% guaranteed bad, this movie proved that once again.

I guess this might appeal if you’re a REAL hardcore fan of anything medieval or of you’re particularly interested in this particular part of medieval history. Even if you are though this movie is unbelievably dull. The two lead actors are frankly uninspiring. Katherine has the same dead pan stare throughout the whole movie and otherwise adds zero. Jan is also as dull as dishwater which is a bit sad given his fame as a medieval warrior. Michael Caine was clearly there to headline in the cast for all of his twenty words of contribution. I doubt he’ll be trotting out this movie as an achievement. Unless you ARE a fan of this particular episode of medieval history the story will likely hold little interest and even if it did it’s not particularly well told or even very understandable. At times it’s hard to fathom who’s who and what they’re doing, or even more importantly, why? I struggled to get to the end of it and was glad when it finished as other than a few medieval fight scenes, all of which seem to lack any appearance of the Teutonic Order, there’s literally nothing else to it. 3/10 is being generous!

The director Petr Jákl was reportedly inspired by the 1995 film Braveheart, which celebrates the personality of Scottish warrior William Wallace.
However, the resulting film lacks atmosphere and, above all, a comprehensible story that would appeal to audiences at home and abroad.

We will have to wait many years for a successful remake of The Warrior Jan Žižka. A big disappointment, rating 2 stars for the cast.