The Last Legion
10,107
Adventure. Action. War
Rome, 476AD. The Roman Empire is under threat. A mighty force for almost 500 years, at its height Rome’s power spread from Mesopotamia in the east to the Iberian peninsula in the west, from the Rhine and Danube in the north to Egypt in the south. This story follows the events surrounding the historical capture of Romulus Augustus and his imprisonment on the island of Capri. On the eve of the ceremony to crown twelve-year-old Romulus ... [+]
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United Kingdom | BBC | "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." | NEG |
Canada | The Globe and Mail | "A boy's adventure story that seems to have been dragged out of the vaults of some early-sixties TV series." | NEG |
United States | Los Angeles Times | "Not as bad as it sounds nor as good as it might have been" | NEU |
United States | TV Guide | "While not exactly in the same league as the visually dazzling 'Excalibur' (...) this Anglo-Italian co-production has quite a bit of fun finding a direct path from the fall of Rome to the birth of Arthurian legend." | POS |
United States | ReelViews | "When a movie wants to be sold as a spectacle, it had better deliver something more spectacular than this." | NEU |
United States | The Hollywood Reporter | "Lackluster and decidedly old-fashioned (in the worst way)" | NEG |
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