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| The Last Legion [2007] | ![The Last Legion [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dBQcdFK-L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Doug Lefler
Actors: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Peter Mullan, Kevin Mckidd, John Hannah
Studio: Momentum Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 273
Format: Pal
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Running Time: 110 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.5
EAN: 5060116722024
ASIN: B000YDAJHM
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: February 18, 2008
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 BAD! August 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've never been so disappointed by a COlin Firth movie! I read the book and I expected a lot more from this movie. The script has little to do with the book and the plot is weak and predictable.
Even worse than the book August 2, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
What do Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Kevin McKidd, John Hannah, and a whole host of other distinguished actors have in common? Answer - they have all embarrassed themselves in one of the most awful films ever put to the silver screen.
I'm not even going to waste my time writing an in-depth review - it was that forgettable. Even the book, which was dire, was better than this, but only in the same way clamidia is slightly more preferable than syphilis.
Why is it not possible to give a zero star rating? This film truly deserved it.
 Keep An Open Mind July 15, 2008
A good little movie, if you don't go into it expecting anything. Entertaining and well acted.
 So much wrong - but the myth nearly carries it June 30, 2008
There's so much wrong with this film, its hard to know where to start. The gifted cast have a stunned look of horror at the script they have to work with. The historical accuracy of the story is best summarised as a brief wave at a history book... The landscapes of Cumbria and Northumbria are obviously somewhere in eastern Europe, with dark age citadels represented by late medieval castles.
If you can imagine a road accident between a student version of Lord of the Rings, the cast of HBO's 'Rome' on their day off, and a souped-up episode of the 1970s serial 'Arthur of the Britons', you're probably about there...
BUT
The cast is very strong and give the ludicrous script some transient dignity. The historical moment, when late antiquity began to fade into the mythology of the early Medieval period is fascinating, and the process of Roman citizens morphing into Britons is touched on. The central idea is quite touching, and the raw power of this myth still carries an undiluted spark of magic which can't be snuffed by the stodgiest treatment. Watch with one eye closed and release your inner 13-year old!
Truly Dire June 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I like a good swords and legends flick as much as the next man but this just doesn't work at all.
There's no warmth between the characters and the audience really isn't encouraged to feel anything for them - which kind of ruins eveything. The first rule of drama is that if nobody cares whether the characters live or die - there IS no drama.
Also, it sets the stage for a series of events at the end, a final battle and a resolution to a 'romance' if you can call it that - but the climax of both is squeezed into about 15 minutes of film. There's no hardship, no steadily building story or sense of anticipation, just a lot of talking and some decent action scenes followed by BANG it's over.
I really wouldn't bother with this film.
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