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  • Actors: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Peter Mullan, Kevin McKidd, John Hannah
  • Directors: Doug Lefler
  • Format: PAL, Colour, Surround Sound, Widescreen, Dolby
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Momentum Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: 18 Feb 2008
  • Run Time: 97 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000YDAJHM
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,149 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Set as the Roman Empire is on the decline, THE LAST LEGION follows a brave young warrior who travels to Britain in search of a new world. Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley star.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars It,s not cinema....it,s alchemy , 17 May 2008
By russell clarke "stipesdoppleganger" (halifax, west yorks) - See all my reviews
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Boasting more historical inaccuracies than if it had been made by the production team of My Parents Are Aliens but adapted from a story partly written by noted historical author Valerio Manfredi The Last Legion is the latest film to tie in the King Arthur mythology with the Romans occupying Britannia in the 5th century . It sure goes about it in a convoluted way though.
It's 460A.D.and Rome is on the verge of falling to the Goths whose leader Odoacer( Peter Mullan) looks like Hagar The Horrible .Young Emperor to be Romulus Augustus(Thomas Sangster), rumoured to be blood relative of Caesar( Ehhh!!) is crowned just before the invasion hordes take the city and is thus a prize capture for them. Once this is done Odoacer charges his vicious soldier Wulfila(Kevin Mckidd) to take the lad to a remote virtually impregnable fortress , though he does allow mysterious sage come magician Ambrosinus (Ben Kingsley) to act as the lads companion which on reflection he may have come to regret.
They are then pursued by commander of the Legions Aurelios (Colin Firth) , some of his men , and an Ottoman warrior Mira (Aishwarya Rai) who is there because of her empires allegiance to Rome , but more probably because she is incredibly attractive and gives the film some love interest.
The action eventually moves to Britannia so the renegades can hook up with the ninth legion -the last in the empire. Here a masked villain called Vortgyn( Harry Van Gorkum) enters the fray because he has some connection to Ambrosinus and the whole thing is resolved with a big battle and it's after this that the film finally reveals it's hand and makes the connections to the Arthurian legend.
The Last Legion is directed by Doug Lefler who has worked on " Xena Warrior Princess" so his incompetence at directing action scenes comes as a surprise. He employs an annoying cinematic device of showing actors response to violence , no doubt to get the film a more family friendly rating . Unfortunately this had the side effect of making me swear vociferously every time it happened so it wasn't that child friendly after all. The action is unconvincing and badly edited but somehow it doesn't stop the film from being an enjoyable unchallenging romp. It is not helped in this regard by some truly excruciatingly bad dialogue , for which the writers Jez and Tom Butterworth should be ashamed. and some poor acting .McKidd overdoes the slavering lunatic role , Firth plays Aurelios as Mr Darcy with a big sword and Van Gorkum is one of the weediest villains in movie history . Ben Kingsley adds gravitas , though his accent veers about like a hippo on a skateboard, and James Cosmo, Peter Mullan , Owen Teale , Alexander Siddig all perform fine supporting roles while Thomas Sangster is decent enough. Aishwarya Rai is arguably the best thing in the movie , though I will confess to a certain libidinous bias there.
Taking into account the mis-casting of the principle hero, the god-awful script, lacksidasical direction and the baffling and numerous examples of historical erroneousness The Last Legion should be a complete disaster . But somehow it emerges as a good looking diverting action filled event . It's complete nonsense but it's never dull .Call me as shallow as a puddle of worm pee but I for one would rather watch entertaining nonsense than tedious art. How they managed to turn the constituent parts of The Last Legion into a passable movie is a feat of alchemy worthy of Merlin himself.



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54 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Epic Film, 16 May 2008
Does a film have to be historically correct to be good? Or can a film still succeed with not many real facts in it? The Last Legion is about the fall of Rome and the birth of a legend. It starts of with a young boy Romulus. He is destined to be the ruler of Rome. But once he becomes Emperor his city crumbles under the invasion of the Goths. He's then forced to run with only bodyguards as protection to Britain. There are quite a few great battle scenes. The history of the movie may be suspect but in this case that doesn't really matter. It's there for entertainment not education. So while it is historically incorrect it's still an epic film for anyone over 12 to watch.
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34 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars the ninth legion, 18 Dec 2007
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Not the best of movies but watchable for some light entertainment. There are some good fighting/battle scenes but the overall plot is a little below par and the same goes for bits of the dialog. I felt like I was watching a B movie with celebreties at some points.
Nothing dramatic and although I wouldn't scare you away completely, there are much better films out there.
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1.0 out of 5 stars What rubbish!
I bought this in the hope that it might be an interesting historical film. What a disappointment. The historical inaccuracies together with the poor acting made this film a... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. M. J. Moore

4.0 out of 5 stars More Manfredi please!
Having now read five of his novels, I have often thought that Valerio Massimo Manfredi is one of those authors whose works could successfully translate to the cinema screen. Read more
Published 3 months ago by A. Stokes

1.0 out of 5 stars Romulus Awfulustulus
Becoming dangerously close to re-entering the top "one million" reviewers, (somebody actually found one of previous hatchet jobs useful for crying out loud! Read more
Published 5 months ago by Worm-Sign

2.0 out of 5 stars The Lost Legion
The preface of the novel on which this was based states it was written to be dramatised as a movie. Something went wrong! Read more
Published 6 months ago by Dubious Status

3.0 out of 5 stars Undemanding two-and-a-half star hokum
One of 2007's biggest flops, albeit of the variety that passes completely under the radar such is the public's complete lack of interest in it, The Last Legion turns out to be... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Trevor Willsmer

1.0 out of 5 stars Utter Rubbish
Aishwarya looked stunning, but even her good looks couldn't redeem the worst film I've seen in a long time. Read more
Published 8 months ago by R. Foster

3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining.
The Last Legion [DVD] [2007]

Roman romp about the last emperor Romulus (Thomas Sangster) whose reign only lasted ten months before Rome was captured by the Goths and... Read more
Published 8 months ago by pointone

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing
this film was a spur of the moment purchase, i was just looking for a film with some action, adventure, fighting scenes and amazing actors in! Read more
Published 8 months ago by Ms. L. Kennedy

1.0 out of 5 stars they just don't know how to make a good history flic these days
WoW, what a thoroughly awfull film. Historically inaccurate, badly acted, terrible script and a very cheap rip of of the clive owen "king arthur" movie. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mrs. Y. Murphy

1.0 out of 5 stars What a HUGE disappointment
Having read the original book - elements from which were almost certainly 'borrowed' for 'King Arthur' - I was disappointed to have missed what seemed to be a ridicously short run... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Legsey

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