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Last Legion, The
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5.6

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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sequences of intense action violence

Starring Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai, Kevin McKidd, John Hannah, Peter Mullan, Rupert Friend, and Thomas Sangster

The Last Legion is a fantasy action-adventure in the vein of The Sword and the Stone set against the Fall of Rome and its last emperor, 12 year-old Romulus Augustus, the boy who would rule for a day before losing all that he loved: his family, his home. and an empire that once stood for truth and honor. Imprisoned on the island-fortress of Capri, Romulus searches for a means to escape. He discovers instead "Exaliburnus", the legendary sword of Julius Caesar, and realizes that he must do all in his power to save Rome. Aided by the clever strategies of his teacher Ambrosinus and the heroic skills of his loyal legionnaire Aurelius, Romulus escapes the island. Accompanied by his friends and a mysterious envoy from Constantinople, Romulus travels to Britannia in search of the last Roman Legion – the fabled Dragon Legion. There, Romulus will fight alongside his friends to make his last stand for Rome and take his first steps to becoming a man and he king who would father a legend. (The Weinstein Company)

GENRE(S):	Action \| Adventure \| War
WRITTEN BY:	Carlo Carlei (story) Peter Rader (story) Valerio Manfredi (story), Tom Butterworth Jez Butterworth
DIRECTED BY:	Doug Lefler
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: December 18, 2007 Theatrical: August 17, 2007
RUNNING TIME:	110 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA / UK / France

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TV Guide Ken Fox

While not exactly in the same league as the visually dazzling "Excalibur" and saddled with cheap looking CGI effects, 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.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

The film is nothing to be ashamed of (especially if you're Kingsley). But it's as if everybody involved knows what the deal is.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Every once in a while, though, Firth's eyebrow hints, Can you believe I'm wearing this dorky leather breastplate?

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Though it's never wise to underestimate the power or universal appeal of Rai's cleavage and lustrous hair, that's about all that sets the doggedly mediocre The Last Legion apart from every other sword-and-sandal epic about the origins of Camelot.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

When a movie wants to be sold as a spectacle, it had better deliver something more spectacular than this.

Los Angeles Times John Anderson

Not as bad as it sounds nor as good as it might have been.

The New York Times Neil Genzlinger

This might have made a good children’s film.

Variety Joe Leydon

Seriously hampered by glaring inconsistencies of tone and intent, and often feels like a series of highlights carved out of a much longer epic.

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

Lackluster and decidedly old-fashioned (in the worst way).

LA Weekly Jim Ridley

Second-rate sword-and-sorcery saga.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

Distinctly humdrum, The Last Legion, a boy's adventure story that seems to have been dragged out of the vaults of some early-sixties TV series.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

The Last Legion offers guilty-pleasure fun in a cheesy, very De Laurentiis way (much like 1976's Mandingo rip-off Drum), but, in the end, it's just not a very inspired or well-conceived film, despite Kingsley's strangely endearing turn as the proto-Merlin.

The average user rating for this movie is 5.6 (out of 10) based on 24 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Adam G. gave it a7:
Good historical entertainment. I'd read the book first. Aishwarya Rai is incredibly hot too.

[Anonymous] gave it a0:
Total garbage. Watch Rome instead.

Gavin gave it an8:
Much better than I expected.

Michele M. gave it an8:
I thought it harkened back to the bygone days of film making-I really enjoyed it.

[Anonymous] gave it a0:
totally boring

Gene W. gave it a0:
The worst movie of the year. Worst movie of last year. Probably the worst movie of next year. Badly edited, it makes almost no sense and wastes a good cast. Terrible doesn't quite capture how awful this movie truly is.

Stan B. gave it a7:
Decent movie, better than I anticipated.

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Last Legion, The
The Weinstein Company