The Woman King (English) Movie Review 2023 : The Woman King (English) Critics Rating 2.5/5. THE WOMAN KING is the story of an all-female unit in a West African kingdom. The year is 1823. In the kingdom of Dahomey, King Ghezo (John Boyega) has employed the services of Agojie, an all-female group of warriors, headed by General Nanisca (Viola Davis). They peacefully coexist with the.
With her rousing new action-drama, “The Woman King,” director Gina Prince-Bythewood suggests that, in at least one crucial respect, the West African kingdom of Dahomey was more ahead of its time than that starry imperialist empire called Hollywood. An early 19th-century epic awash in militaristic might and colonial oppression, the
Gina Prince-Bythewood's follow-up to "The Old Guard" is a forceful account of women warriors in the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 19th century.