The Rebels (2019) User Reviews

Shouldn't have bothered to be honest.

[Stevocity · 4/10 · 28 October 2019]

While you can see the effort in production values despite the budget it still has a real CBBC afternoon children's drama feel about it. I'll give it a pass on historical accuracy, the story itself is the real let down.

One for showing primary school kids on the last day before summer holidays and that's about it. A for effort D for execution.

When LARP'ing gets out of hand.

[danpc-06751 · 3/10 · 4 January 2020]

The one shot opening scene is ruined by the amount of people looking directly into camera. The immersion into Roman Wales is lost as soon as the lead characters start talking like 21st centuary public school rich millenials..surely as actors they could have at least managed a Welsh accent? Simple details even a low budget movie should at least get right get completely lost in this live action roleplay put on film. Worth a watch for laughs though at all the innacuracies and bizzare dialogue and plot. Oh..and the music!! It's so out of place in nearly every scene that it just left me bemused, and amused. From minimalist piano to 80's synth the soundtrack is bloody hilarious too.

Wow, so bad

[dave-fry1 · 2/10 · 4 February 2020]

Decent idea, poorly acted, terribly scripted and diabolical direction, what a shame

So many WHY's

[cruzarts-73946 · 2/10 · 13 November 2019]

WHY did this film need to be set in the 1st Century? The setting comes off as a really cheap Medieval Faire. The detail of the four main characters is utterly missing. They're supposed to be Welsh, but sound and look like 21st Century UK college kids in costumes. For a limited budget production, the vision is all over the place. The youth are attractive, but I doubt this project will be a prize in any of their résumés.

What was that?

[ks-60500 · 3/10 · 16 December 2019]

The only part I understand is those kids steal apple then afterward, I don't understand what they are doing and all are non sense killing.....I'm sorry

Unconvincing and disappointing

[johannes2000-1 · 5/10 · 31 July 2021]

Maybe the low rating of this movie is due to wrong expectations: when reading the synopsis you might think you're in for a high paced historical action-movie, with dashing young rebels challenging and fighting the ferocious Roman occupying soldiers. Well, that's not the case. It's actually a much more sober coming-of-age-like story. The four youngsters that flee their village have no idea what to do or where to go, and in time they have to cope with the cruel outside world, with each others habits and with the consequences of their deeds. At least this side of the movie is not that bad.

On the other hand, the whole project is a bit lackluster, even the photography, and it's actually hard to believe that this is a movie from 2019, it could as easily have dated from the eighties. It's obviously very low budgeted, settings and costumes are very basic and look cheap and unconvincing, especially those of the Roman soldiers. There are some fighting-scenes but rather clumsily staged. The young actors are good-looking and do their best, but leave no lasting impressions.

And then there's this thing with the dialogues: these four native Brit adolescents from the first century BC talk with a vocabulary as if they're 21'st century high school mates! Of course this cannot be an unfortunate error, I guess mr. Emmet Cummins (writer and director) has had a deliberate purpose with it, but if so, I fail to grasp it. Could it really have been his intention that most of the audience would experience this as utterly anachronistic and with that a bit preposterous?

In short: disappointing, it hardly reaches the standard of a teen movie.

A badly written and acted school play

[adrianomartorana · 1/10 · 21 May 2021]

The film would have been a lot shorter if it wasn't for the pauses for cinematographic effect. The acting is wooden, the script appalling and the general storyline like a Famous Five plot but without the dog..although to be fair a dog did come and stare at the lead character for a few seconds.

When are they going to eat?

[bloggs848 · 5/10 · 11 July 2022]

They ran out of food on day 2 then for the next 5 or 6 days they sat around all playing around or moping instead of looking for food. Even when they were at the beach instead of fishing or digging up some shellfish they decide to have another play around. Good battle and fight scenes at the end.

Modern kids in medieval times

[superboomshack · 2/10 · 7 September 2022]

I don't understand what this film is about. Roman soldiers with Scottish accents; clothing not accurate for the time; kids are hungry but all they do is sit around; don't waste your time...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

CW In Rome

[jamaisj-838-93732 · 5/10 · 24 April 2021]

This is that filler episode you see where the four leads go off and try to survive on their own for a weekend, and so you get a lot of talking about life and other stuff, but no real action. Throw in that there's no sex, the drug scene is tame, and the four have no idea what they're doing in the woods despite living on the edge of them their entire lives, and it's just boring.

There's a decent battle scene at the end, but there's just too much happening off-screen that should be on-screen.

Good Sunday film

[stephenjemyers · 8/10 · 11 June 2021]

Kinda enjoyable low budget film for a Sunday after a roast.

Low budget but still good and worth watching

[jprice-46970 · 7/10 · 5 March 2021]

It is a simple story, lot of swearing and low budget but however it has an interesting plot where these villager kids accidently kill roman soldier (by self defence) which than provokes an uprising and the teens have to do their best to survive in the wilderness so u can appreciate the effort the creators have done

Good quality indie film

[pbingham-54031 · 7/10 · 6 September 2021]

Even with the simple plot and low budget, this indie film was a good watch. Could have gone a bit more in depth and explained some frayed side plots, but overall decent. I noticed in the credits there were a lot of trainees that helped with this film, which was awesome to see. I'd love to see a sequel in the future, as the ending was left pretty open. I liked that it was a subject set in the old ages and they presented it with a more modern vibe.