The Last Legion

2007 "The end of an empire...the beginning of a legend."
5.4| 1h42m| PG-13| en
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As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

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Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
BA_Harrison The Last Legion is a lavish, all-star mythological/historical epic with an ambitious storyline that links the last Caesar of Rome with Arthurian legend; it's also horribly miscast, boasts stilted dialogue, suffers from poor visual effects and mediocre action, and mines every hoary medieval movie cliché imaginable, all the while pandering to a family audience with its child-friendly blood-free battles.Colin Firth stars as Aurelius, commander of the imperial guard, who leads a small band of warriors (including Bollywood hottie Aishwarya Rai as sword-swinging badass babe Mira) to rescue child emperor Romulus Augustus (Thomas Sangster) and his teacher Ambrosinus (Ben Kingsley) from exile on Capri, after which they schlep to Britannia to try and find the last of the Roman legions.Director Doug Lefler's previous experience includes helming episodes of Hercules and Xena: Warrior Princess, and it shows, his film feeling more like a feature length version of one of these cheesy shows rather than the grandiose sweeping saga it so dearly wants to be. File next to Uwe Boll's In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007) and Dungeons & Dragons (2000).
Tom Wonderfully made movie. No magical powers here and other fancy special effects, but very dramatic and thrilling regardless. Definitely worth the rental charge.It tells the story of the last stand of the Roman Empire until it's fall, which leads to the story of King Arthur and the famous sword, "Excalibur". But that's for another movie. It mainly focuses on the last blood line of the great Julius Caesar and the quest of the most powerful sword ever forged. I love these kind of movies and this movie I will cherish like the rest of its kind.
miguel-j-maestas96 First off let me say i know a little bit about history and the historical inaccuracies made me want to kill myself. The violence was awful and i hate that technique where you are about to see something violent and then it cuts away. It was a stupid idea making this pg- 13 because if it was R it could be like 300 or Immortals and the inaccuracies don't matter just hot women and people dying. I was about to stop watching until that hot girl came out of the water and I still almost regret finishing it. It had good actors so that was not a problem but after i looked this movie up I found it was based on a book and very loosely based on that book. Seriously the people who made this movie like the director did not know what they were doing and they do not know anything about history or common sense. There were Goths wearing fur on a hot island in the sea for crying out loud. And the idea was just a copy from the movie King Arthur with Clive Owen that ties it to the Roman Empire which was smart cause they had enough to make it work but this did not.
alphacentauri-945-738849 I read the book and it wasn't that bad either. Sure it had quite some clichés and was very predictable...we could say Hollywood-ish, but was decent enough fun.Seeing the movie i'm quite disappointed. It's not just that the plot is almost entirely different, many parts changed, a lot of them discarded. What is much worse than that, is that it has quite poor directing. Events just hope around with very little intermezzos, the story is poorly shown and it has even more clichés than the book. Many times it just gets annoying and confusing. The whole move feels extremely rushed forward.The acting isn't bad, in my opinion it has lots of potential, but it's just a shame how badly executed it was.I'm really disappointed by this movie, it had potential to be a decent piece on par with gladiator and king Arthur, but it falls very short.I highly recommend you get the book first and watch the movie after.