Druids | 
| Director: Jacques Dorfmann
Actors: Christopher Lambert, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max Von Sydow, Ines Sastre, Denis Charvet
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 33090
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Georgian (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D06445D
ISBN: 0767866959
UPC: 043396064454
EAN: 9780767866958
ASIN: B00005R23V
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: December 11, 2001
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Product Description
Follows the legendary fate of vercingetorix from the sweetness of happy childhood spent with his cheerful father celtill to the rise and fall of the gallic nation in a ferocious battle against julius cesars roman empire. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/13/2008 Starring: Christopher Lambert Max Von Sydow Run time: 124 minutes Rating: R Director: Jacques Dorfmann
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 Staggeringly awful June 18, 2009
Trevor Willsmer (London, England)
There is a great film to be made about Vercingetorix's doomed attempt to drive the Romans out of Gaul and Gaius Julius Caesar's subsequent near-genocide of the local population. This is not that film. Unfortunately, Vercingetorix, aka Druids, doesn't even seem to even want to be that film.
You know you're in trouble when the film begins with a typical bit of Rospo Pallenberg-scripted pseudo-mythological babble about prophecies that tip you off that this is more interested in fantasy than history long before you see Max Von Sydow's druid (another of his paying the rent jobs) or Christophe Lambert's Highlanderish Vercingetorix ("You want to live forever? Then follow me!"). There is some lip-service given to the reasons the Gauls were defeated - ironically their democracy made them vulnerable to indecision when they could have reinforced Vercingetorix's troops where Caesar's ruthlessly autocratic style of leadership was at least decisive. But unfortunately it's rendered laughable by the inept direction, terrible performances and risible dialogue (even Klaus Maria Brandauer can't do anything with lines like "The light of my victory will make my invisible past failures heavier."), while the film's production design looks like the producers bought a job lot of used costumes off the Asterix films and then dreamt up a film to use them in. Even the battle scenes are completely botched - indeed, despite a good chunk of the Bulgarian armed forces being roped into the picture as extras, director Jacques Dorfman can't even get a good shot of the Roman formations marching by: it actually looks as if he forgot to say action until they'd nearly passed by.
There's some unintentional humour to be found, but mostly this is just so bad it's bad. You're better off watching the section of Uli Edel's 2002 miniseries Julius Caesar that deals with the subjugation of Gaul instead.
 Take the good things from this movie May 21, 2008
Luis (Chile)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It seems that historically based movies suffer from the critics as much as horror features do. While this is not an outstanding piece of cinema, it succeeds in showing the last days of the Roman campaign against gaulic celts. Acting is not very good (Christopher Lambert never been a good actor), but I liked the scenary and the movie pace. At the end, an entertaining movie where you learn some about the history of Roman conquest in western Europe. Lastly, a descent movie for the price.
WTF! March 13, 2008
Linnsaidh (Michigan, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Simply a tie-breaker for the WORST film in history (the other being HP Lovecraft's "The Tomb"). Take my advice and avoid these films if you have ANY self-value.
Who did the hairstyles for these bad actors? November 25, 2007
J. Lundberg
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen? The actors mostly seem like extras that have had no previous acting experience. The script seems like it was written by a high schooler. The direction is awful too.
And.. who is the hairstylist for these actors? Talk about bad hair. The lead character played by Chistopher Lambert looks like Dana Carvey straight out of Wayne's World. Every actor in this movie has a very, very distracting hairstyle. I didn't know they had hair mousse in Julius Caesar's time.
It's hard to make it through this movie. It has a made for tv feel throughout and it just one poor attempt at movie making. Do NOT buy this movie before renting it first. You will most likely be very sorry for doing so.
Typical Lambert November 25, 2007
Finn O'Brea (Chicago, IL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The only actor I knew in this movie was Lambert. I have never been a fan of his but figured give it a shot as a rental. Well it is a typical Lambert movie only worse. At least in Highlander the script and other actors around Lambert were good. In this movie (which has very little to do with Druids) the script was bad, and the other actors were bad. No one there to save Lambert from his dreadful lisp (get the cotton out of your mouth, even Barbara Walters learned how to get over a speech impediment). Of course there were some historical highlights that a previous review posted, as well as a few anomlies. But the one incorrect thing they put into the movie was the made the leader of the Tuetons a head hunter. It was the Celts who were "Head-Hunters", after a battle the Celts would collect the heads of important enemies.
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