I was really looking forward to this release, the trailer looked good and good Roman battle movies are at a real premium, I could list all the good ones on one hand.
After watching this i was slightly disappointed, It was as if i had watched a cheap version of the 2004 version of King Arthur. Roman men stranded in Scotland behind Hadrians wall, being chased by the enemy picking them off one by one, even the Blue battle make up for the Scottish Woads/Picts as they were called in each movie was the same. It also appeared that the director had stolen ideas from various other films, Last of the mohicans for the attack on the Road and Spartacus for the fireballs being rolled at the Roman soldiers. Olga Kurylenko, what a waste.......giving her a role as a mute !!!! We did not really see much acting ability from her here.
It was after this list of complaints still a watchable movie with some good action scenes and a pretty predictable ending. I would say the first half of the movie was better and then became predictable. If you have 90 minutes to kill and you don't want a too deep movie then watch this as there are a lot worse movies out there.
After watching this i was slightly disappointed, It was as if i had watched a cheap version of the 2004 version of King Arthur. Roman men stranded in Scotland behind Hadrians wall, being chased by the enemy picking them off one by one, even the Blue battle make up for the Scottish Woads/Picts as they were called in each movie was the same. It also appeared that the director had stolen ideas from various other films, Last of the mohicans for the attack on the Road and Spartacus for the fireballs being rolled at the Roman soldiers. Olga Kurylenko, what a waste.......giving her a role as a mute !!!! We did not really see much acting ability from her here.
It was after this list of complaints still a watchable movie with some good action scenes and a pretty predictable ending. I would say the first half of the movie was better and then became predictable. If you have 90 minutes to kill and you don't want a too deep movie then watch this as there are a lot worse movies out there.