I had hoped to write a review without spoilers but can't find a way.
The film as a film is great. Good acting, photography etc.
The historical inaccuracies really spoiled the film for me. In any historical drama, poetic licence is to be expected. This however, is a bit far. Henry V never had any doubt that he was the rightful King of France. He believed it as a divine right and inheritance. The meetings between Henry and the French Dauphin didn't happen. They make a nice story but are false.
The films battle scenes centre around the Men at Arms. They were there and they were important. However, the Battle of Agincourt was all about the English (and Welsh) archers. This was the battle that announced that England had the most destructive weapon on the planet at that time. The English archers, literally, sent down a rain of terror. It's estimated that a thousand arrows a minute were raining down on the French front line. Even the noise from this many arrows was terrifying. Many of the Knights on horseback couldn't control their horses because the horses were terrified by this noise. The film does show the mud that was probably why the English won. It wasn't the Men at Arms that created it fighting the cavalry charge. The French cavalry rode on to stakes that had been put up, over night, in front of the English archers. The French had sent too many mounted knights into the attack. They ran into those in front and fell in the mud that the horses had created. The more men that the French sent, the worse they made the conditions.
Davy Gamm, who saved the Kings life at the battle doesn't get a mention, even though he was very close to the king.
So, historically not very good but as film loosely based in fact it's great!
