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Movie Review for The Last Legion
Movie Review for
The Last Legion
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The Last Legion | | |
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39 Reviews total.
Release date: 8/17/2007
Run length: 101 mins.
Categories:
Action/Adventure
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Drama
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Adaptation
Summary:
Rome, 476 AD. The Roman Empire, a mighty force for almost 500 years, is being threatened. On the eve of twelve-year-old Romulus Augustus' crowning ceremony to become the new emperor, Barbarian general Odoacer arrives in Rome to make a deal with Orestes. Odoacer makes demands of the Roman Empire in fair exchange for his decade-long support of the Roman legions in the east. But Orestes refuses. On Coronation day, as all of Rome gathers to watch the proceedings, Ambrosinus, the shaman who is a mentor and tutor to Romulus, predicts danger. Orestes is worried about his son's safety and appoints Aurelius of the fourth legion to be his personal guard. That night, Aurelius and his legionnaires confront danger--Odoacer and his army have returned to Rome. With a deafening roar, the Barbarian army storms the city. With Orestes slaughtered, Romulus is captured along with Ambrosinus and taken to the island fortress of Capri. But, not all the Roman legionnaires are dead. Aurelius is alive and when he learns that the Byzantine Empire will give Romulus sanctuary, he embarks on a journey to the coast accompanied by a small group of his men and a mysterious, black-clad Byzantine warrior. Later, Aurelius discovers what lies behind the black clothing--a beautiful, young woman named Mira. Thanks to the strategic cunning of Ambrosinus and the fighting skill of Aurelius and Mira, Romulus is freed. But, when the group arrives on shore, they learn that the Byzantines have joined forces with Odoacer's army of Goths. Faced with such betrayal, they must find the one legion still loyal to Rome--the ninth legion in Britannia. As they set off in search of the last legion, Romulus and Aurelius together embark on a new beginning.
Reviews of The Last Legion
By
Brian Webster
of Apollo Guide (7/0)
The Last Legion is more quaint than thrilling, but it's refreshing to see an old style sword figh...
By
Wesley Morris
of Boston Globe (7/0)
The movie rarely feels fresh. Even an absurd cage-match like 300 cared enough to be both rousing ...
By
Peter T. Chattaway
of Christianity Today (7/0)
This movie, for all its quasi-realism, is never as inspiring, interesting, or disturbing as the s...
By
Scott Weinberg
of Cinematical (7/0)
While it's almost certainly guaranteed to be a box office bomb, I'm suspecting this goofy little ...
By
Brian Orndorf
of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
Trust me, it's worth the price of admission to see Colin Firth, an actor of such steely emotional...
By
Lisa Schwarzbaum
of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
...an almost touchingly jumbled Dino De Laurentiian historical Euro epic...
Reviews of The Last Legion
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
I will at least smile as I recall its harmless idiocy, in much the same way that one smiles at re...
By
Ethan Alter
of Film Journal International (7/0)
At best, it's aggressively mediocre, a movie that passes the time without ever really engaging yo...
By
MaryAnn Johanson
of Flick Filosopher (7/0)
[B]ereft of anything approaching the movie magic it is clearly desperate to evoke...
By
Liam Lacey
of Globe and Mail (7/0)
All are given swords to swing and mouthfuls of fake archaic dialogue to speak and none of it make...
By
Frank Scheck
of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
We can only hope that the title of this misbegotten swords-and-sandals adventure is prophetic.
By
Frank Scheck
of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
We can only hope that the title of this misbegotten swords-and-sandals adventure is prophetic.
Reviews of The Last Legion
By
Bruce Kirkland
of Jam! Movies (7/0)
The real problem is that The Last Legion is just too boring.
By
Andrea Chase
of Killer Movie Reviews (7/0)
not compelling, not mythic, and not exciting
By
Colin Covert
of Minneapolis Star Tribune (7/0)
Put yourself in the proper boy's-adventure mindset and The Last Legion's corny moments will just ...
By
Ken Hanke
of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (7/0)
Lots budgetary-challenged battles of the largely bloodless PG-13 stripe with folks in smelly look...
By
Michael Dequina
of Mr. Brown's Movies (7/0)
While the swashbuckling content is engaging enough on a popcorn level, the attempts at any sort o...
By
Jack Mathews
of New York Daily News (7/0)
I have too much respect for Kingsley and Firth to believe they did this for anything other than t...
Reviews of The Last Legion
By
Neil Genzlinger
of New York Times (7/0)
This sword-and-sandal spectacle from those epic-loving De Laurentiises might have made a good chi...
By
Neil Genzlinger
of New York Times (7/0)
Its few attempts at humorous camaraderie fall flat, leaving you wondering why this grim group wan...
By
Frank Swietek
of One Guy's Opinion (6/1)
An old-fashioned boys' adventure yarn...no great shakes as a fantasy epic...but there are far wor...
By
Nathan Rabin
of Onion AV Club (7/0)
If green-screen bloodbaths like 300 represent the future of adventure epics, then The Last Legion...
By
Nathan Rabin
of Onion AV Club (7/0)
Though it's never wise to underestimate the power or universal appeal of Rai's cleavage and lustr...
By
Jason Ferguson
of Orlando Weekly (7/0)
The many faults of The Last Legion give way to guilt-free popcorn thrills.
Reviews of The Last Legion
By
Linda Cook
of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (7/0)
Here's a strange concept: A goofy, Indiana-Jones-type spin on the pre-Arthur legend.
By
Betty Jo Tucker
of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (7/0)
'The Last Legion' is a wonderful adventure/fantasy with great characters portrayed by actors who ...
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (7/0)
Firth is horribly miscast. I'll buy him as a romantic lead or the main character in a drama, but ...
By
James O'Ehley
of SA Movie & DVD Magazine (7/0)
Once you accept The Last Legion for what it is, namely a Saturday adventure matinee show aimed at...
By
Jim Lane
of Sacramento News & Review (7/0)
...makes a hash of history, but...just think of it as a nifty adventure dreamed by an imaginative...
By
Ed Gonzalez
of Slant Magazine (7/0)
A depressing pageant of bad dialogue, uninspired sword fights, corny getaways, and loads of compl...
Reviews of The Last Legion
By
Tony Medley
of Tolucan Times (7/0)
To say that this is amateurish would be to elevate it to a level of professionalism it does not a...
By
Geoff Pevere
of Toronto Star (7/0)
In The Last Legion, Rome doesn't fall. But it does look like it would rather be lying down and ta...
By
Ken Fox
of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
This Anglo-Italian co-production has quite a bit of fun finding a direct path from the fall of Ro...
By
Joe Leydon
of Variety (7/0)
The chief problem with The Last Legion stems from the filmmakers' apparent inability to decide wh...
By
Annlee Ellingson
of Boxoffice Magazine (6/1) No reference
This unoriginal picture also suffers from uninspired dialogue uttered by actors who are better th...
By
John Monaghan
of Detroit Free Press (6/1) No reference
Scene-for-scene, it’s far more fun than most of the Hollywood-approved action blockbusters releas...
Reviews of The Last Legion
By
John Anderson
of Los Angeles Times (6/1) No reference
...not as bad as it sounds nor as good as it might have been.
By
Lisa Rose
of Newark Star-Ledger (6/1) No reference
Even though the film clocks under two hours, it seems longer than a Lord of the Rings marathon pl...
By
John Anderson
of Newsday (5/2) No reference
Despite the occasional gleam of wit, very little is to be taken seriously -- not the story, not t...
Movie Distributors
The Weinstein Company Production Companies
Carthago Films
Quinta Communications
Zephyr Films
Empire Productions
Dino De Laurentiis Company Movie Studios
RAI Cinema
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