![]() ![]() Quintus, sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the earth and destroy their leader Gorlacon.īut when the legion is ambushed on unfamiliar ground, and Virilus taken captive, Quintus faces a desperate struggle to keep his small platoon alive behind enemy lines, evading remorseless Pict pursuers over harsh terrain, as the band of soldiers race to rescue their General, and to reach the safety of the Roman frontier. But in northern Britain, the relentless onslaught of conquest has ground to a halt in face of the guerrilla tactics of an elusive enemy: the savage and terrifying tribes known as the Picts. The Roman Empire stretches from Egypt to Spain, and East as far as the Black Sea. It makes the puniness of the story seem that much smaller by comparison.AD 117. When it isn’t getting up close and personal with the mutilation, Sam McCurdy’s cinematography is the best thing going in “Centurion,” expansive and exact as it rolls over the forbiddingly beautiful Scottish landscape. The acting ranges from obvious to over-obvious, about what you’d expect for a film crammed with doofus chit-chat and sage-like proclamations that might be excerpts from “Lost.” Most of the carnage in Marshall’s film isn’t realistic or even imaginative, just unwatchably gross the one exception is a terrifically staged ambush-with-rolling-fireballs. ![]() They scotch that plan by annihilating the Romans, whose survivors then spend the bulk of the movie getting chased down by a mute, vengeful Pictish babe with Barbarella eyeshadow (Olga Kurylenko). Meanwhile, the stout-hearted General Titus Virilus (Dominic West) has received orders to annihilate the Picts. All Memorabilia Props (3) Costumes (8) US + UK UK (11) Newest First Oldest First By Movie By Name Price Low > Hi Price Hi > Low By Status. The Picts swear less and converse in Gaelic, except when they speak English with a lovely Scottish burr. In short order we learn that he lives long enough to narrate the movie (unless he’s dead and played by Kevin Spacey), that he proudly resists Pict rendition (“I am a soldier of Rome! I will not yield!”), and that he often employs four-letter words of Germanic and Anglo-Saxon origin. Cut to Roman centurion and escaped POW Quintus Dias (Michael Fassbender) as he scrambles through the snow, shirtless, bloodied and bound. Probably they were massacred by wild-haired Caledonians with spears, a view assumed by writer-director Neil Marshall in his historically detailed but epically vacant bloodbath of a movie, which devotes herculean effort to splash-happy graphic dismemberment - most major body parts get their turn - but overlooks the little matter of a script.Ī preamble explains the grim situation for the Roman Empire, locked for 20 years in a stalemate with the proto-terrorist tactics of the Picts. The Roman Empire stretches from Egypt to Spain, and east as far as the Black Sea. What exactly happened to them no one knows. Centurion 2010 RCC Magnolia PicturesENGLISH 1h 38m ratings (306) borrow Cast Michael Fassbender, Olga Kurylenko, Dominic West Director Neil Marshall AD 117. Become a Criterion Channel Subscriber A movie lover’s dream, the Criterion Channel offers classics and discoveries from around the world, thematically programmed with special features, on a streaming service brought to you by the Criterion Collection. “Centurion” is about Romans getting slaughtered by Picts in the harsh northern regions of Britannia, where, history tells us, the entire Ninth Legion disappeared around 117 A.D. ![]() ![]() For stupid, look no further than “Centurion.” There are six standard types of violence in film these days: Tarantino, comic book, Scorsese, martial arts, horror and stupid. Rated: R (strong bloody violence, grisly images, language)Ĭast: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Andreas Wisniewski, Noel Clarke ![]()
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