THE WOMAN KING 2
JUST LEFT THE WOMAN KING 2 AND I’M STILL SCREAMING “AGOJIE!!!” IN THE THEATER LOBBY
VIOLA DAVIS JUST INVENTED ACTING ALL OVER AGAIN. General Nanisca walked on screen and the temperature dropped 20 degrees because a WHOLE QUEEN entered the battlefield. Every war cry, every tear, every time she said “We are the spear of Dahomey” I felt my ancestors stand up in my chest.
THUSO MBEDU AS NAWI IS NOW OFFICIALLY THE BADDEST WOMAN ALIVE. Grown warrior Nawi climbing walls with a machete in her teeth, leading charges, calling out kings to their face… she didn’t come to play, she came to rewrite history.
The battles? GOOD LORD. Thousands of warriors clashing at dawn, spears flying like rain, drums so loud you feel them in your ribs. One 12-minute single-take fight across a burning village had the entire theater holding their breath then erupting like we just won the war ourselves.
But the quiet moments destroyed me: Nanisca teaching baby Agojie how to hold a blade while holding back her own trauma, Nawi discovering the cost of “tradition,” sisterhood scenes so powerful I was crying into my friend’s sleeve.
This movie doesn’t just honor African women warriors; it puts them on the throne they were robbed of for centuries.
Gina Prince-Bythewood said “We’re not done” and then dropped the greatest war epic of the decade.
Run, don’t walk. Bring every woman you love. We don’t just need this movie; we needed this WIN.
A new queen has risen and her name is Agojie forever
