The Last Legion

Name: The Last Legion
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, War
Released: August 17, 2007
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 37
Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Ben Kingsley, Colin Firth

2007

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Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: August 17, 2007 | PG-13

Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Ben Kingsley, Colin Firth

Summary: 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-fortressThe 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)… Expand

Director: Doug Lefler

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Fantasy, War

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 102 min

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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. Read full review

James Berardinelli

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

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. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

This might have made a good children’s film. Read full review

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. Read full review

Frank Scheck

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

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. Read full review

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JamesE.

Aug 7, 2008

An enjoyable film with the fall of Rome. Great movie with an intriguing plot. Bob B should be raped by a retard with AIDS.

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JaredC.

Aug 14, 2007

Amazing, this Colin Firth is starring in a movie King Arthur should have been.

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Kai82

Mar 1, 2021

A historic movie which is loosely based on the book of the same name from Valerio Massimo Manfredi. Also very loosely based on real historical events and more a fantasized history approach. The movie starts when the twelve year old Romulus Augustus is crowned to become emperor of theA historic movie which is loosely based on the book of the same name from Valerio Massimo Manfredi. Also very loosely based on real historical events and more a fantasized history approach. The movie starts when the twelve year old Romulus Augustus is crowned to become emperor of the (western) Roman empire (This was not uncommon in history and there were even far younger emperors. Those were mostly just puppets or in name emperors for the real rulers). At this time the western Roman empire is just a shadow from what it was before and dependent of foreign military leaders and their soldiers (Was also true in real live). Odoaker a powerful leader of the Goths who helped Romulus father takes over Rom as he feels betrayed. Romulus is put in exile when a group of loyal legionnaires tries to rescue him. Their only hope to restore him as emperor is a lost legion which vanished in Britain as all other option are already out of the pictures and even the eastern Roman empire does not help them. Short interruption for a real life history lesson: The Roman empire was in his later history split between an eastern and western empire. The eastern empire also called Byzantine empire continued to exist for around 1000 more years from this time even when there are debates by historians if eastern Romans were truly Romans (This is not a joke). For the western Roman empire this age is for some historians the beginning of the end of western Rom which is also debatable as many following rulers will still call themselves Roman emperors or rulers and would be recognized in their time as such. Back to the review. With this in mind they make the long journey to try to find the lost legion in Britain. This is the introduction of the movie. I like the story and characters. It is an interesting Hollywood approach or fantasy history that has everything to be entertaining. At the end it has a nice twist that you might see coming or know when you read the description even the one on Metacritic. Most complains are about the story and I disagree. This is an entertainment movie and does not claim to be historic or historical correct. It is also not aimed to be intellectual so the critic is not valid for me in this case. If you want something more accurate and still entertaining watch the excellent Rom series (HBO?) or documentaries. For the cast we got a good value of great actors with Colin Firth as Aurelius, legendary Ben Kingsley as Ambrosius (best actor in the movie), Aishwarya Rai as Mira (hidden gem of the movie), Harry Van Gorkum as Vortgyn and Thomas Brodie Sangster as Romulus Augustus to name a few. A really well done performance for this kind of movie and I cared for the characters. The sets, costumes and weapons look good and convincing (Even if I am sure that these are not historical accurate). The battles and fights are well done and entertaining so I have no complains here to. There is some good humor here and there and even after years I remember a few funny scenes. Overall this is an entertaining and enjoyable movie. Not a masterpiece but definitely worth watching and rememberable. I bought also the book after seeing the movie but have yet to read it.… Expand

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StanB.

Aug 21, 2007

Decent movie, better than I anticipated.

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TonyM

Mar 16, 2008

An Ok dramatised historical movie however it's filled with cheap CGI and a bad script. Read the book first, it's so much better than the movie.

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Broken_Bones

Nov 20, 2010

Not very good. It's a poor mans Lord of the Rings. Skip it. The actors overact and it is historically inaccurate. The costumes are OK though. The script was boring and it just dragged on and on.

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[Anonymous]

Aug 23, 2007

totally boring

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