Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #211 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-02-18
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 110 minutes

Synopsis
Set as the Roman Empire is on the decline, THE LAST LEGION follows a brave young warrior who travels to Britain in search of a new world. Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley star.

Customer Reviews

Even worse than the book
What do Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Kevin McKidd, John Hannah, and a whole host of other distinguished actors have in common? Answer - they have all embarrassed themselves in one of the most awful films ever put to the silver screen.

I'm not even going to waste my time writing an in-depth review - it was that forgettable. Even the book, which was dire, was better than this, but only in the same way clamidia is slightly more preferable than syphilis.

Why is it not possible to give a zero star rating? This film truly deserved it.

Keep An Open Mind
A good little movie, if you don't go into it expecting anything. Entertaining and well acted.

So much wrong - but the myth nearly carries it
There's so much wrong with this film, its hard to know where to start. The gifted cast have a stunned look of horror at the script they have to work with. The historical accuracy of the story is best summarised as a brief wave at a history book... The landscapes of Cumbria and Northumbria are obviously somewhere in eastern Europe, with dark age citadels represented by late medieval castles.

If you can imagine a road accident between a student version of Lord of the Rings, the cast of HBO's 'Rome' on their day off, and a souped-up episode of the 1970s serial 'Arthur of the Britons', you're probably about there...

BUT

The cast is very strong and give the ludicrous script some transient dignity. The historical moment, when late antiquity began to fade into the mythology of the early Medieval period is fascinating, and the process of Roman citizens morphing into Britons is touched on. The central idea is quite touching, and the raw power of this myth still carries an undiluted spark of magic which can't be snuffed by the stodgiest treatment. Watch with one eye closed and release your inner 13-year old!