The Last Legion (2007)
17 %
Reviews Counted: 52 Fresh: 9 Rotten:43 Average Rating: 4.1/10
Consensus:
With miscast leads and unoriginal, uninspired dialogue, The Last Legion pales in comparison to the recent cinematic epics it invokes.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Theatrical Release: Aug 17, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $125,769,808
Synopsis: THE LAST LEGION is a reason to rejoice for action fans who prefer their battle scenes to be composed of flesh and blood rather than megabytes. Based on the novel by Valerio Manfredi, this is a sword-and-sandal epic that deftly weaves a tale of the fall of the Roman Empire with myth and magic,... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai, Peter Mullan, Kevin McKidd
Director: Doug Lefler
Screenwriter: Jez Butterworth, Tom Butterworth
Story: Carlo Carlei, Peter Rader, Valerio Manfredi
Producer: Martha De Laurentiis, Raffaella De Laurentiis, Tarak Ben Ammar
Composer: Patrick Doyle
Screenwriter: Jez Butterworth, Tom Butterworth
Story: Carlo Carlei, Peter Rader, Valerio Manfredi
Producer: Martha De Laurentiis, Raffaella De Laurentiis, Tarak Ben Ammar
Composer: Patrick Doyle
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Reviews
As the Roman Empire crumbles, undemanding escapist entertainment with wonderful production design and a cast.
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05/12/08
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01/15/08
There are, after all, aimed at young audiences plenty of movies more mean-spirited, indiscriminate and obnoxious than The Last Legion. But at the same time there are plenty that are, alas, less frustrating.
12/17/07
Top Critic
Colin Firth is not an actor who projects sparkling joie de vivre at the best of times, and The Last Legion, a cod-Roman reimagining of Arthurian myth, is very much not the best of times.
10/19/07
A hunk of old Brie, left all day in the glove compartment in a car on a hot summer's day, could not smell more ripe than this absurd sword'n'sandal Roman movie.
10/19/07
A novel hybrid of swords, sandals, horned helmets and furs, this really is a load of old rubbish, but there's some fun to be had, especially for boys who like to have mock sword fights with wooden sticks.
10/19/07
Paper-thin characters, stilted conversations and abrupt editing mean this is hard to get involved with, and its link with Arthurian legend feels contrived and clichéd.
10/19/07
Crudely mangling Arthurian legend into Roman history, this creaky swords ’n’ sandals romper trundles forward like a hurriedly upholstered TV movie.
10/19/07
The action sequences are handled well enough but the CGI isn't up to snuff in a tale that barely merits the retelling.
10/19/07
This attempt at reimagining the Arthurian legend fails to raise the pulse due to some leaden dialogue and unconvincing performances.
10/19/07
...makes a hash of history, but...just think of it as a nifty adventure dreamed by an imaginative boy who dozed off in his grandfather's library.
08/31/07
Here's a strange concept: A goofy, Indiana-Jones-type spin on the pre-Arthur legend.
08/29/07
While it's almost certainly guaranteed to be a box office bomb, I'm suspecting this goofy little adventure will earn a few bemused fans once it hits DVD.
08/26/07
A passably entertaining hodgepodge of sword-and-sandal film clichés and Arthurian romance.
08/25/07
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