Centurion (2010)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 102
Fresh: 60 | Rotten: 42
It's a bloody geyser of Neil Marshall's typically stylish B-movie action, but Centurion is too focused on hacking and slashing to deliver original dialogue or interesting characters.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 10
It's a bloody geyser of Neil Marshall's typically stylish B-movie action, but Centurion is too focused on hacking and slashing to deliver original dialogue or interesting characters.
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CENTURION is set during the war between Roman soldiers and Pict tribesmen during the 2nd century Roman conquest of Britain. Michael Fassbender stars as Quintus Dias, Roman centurion and son of a legendary gladiator who leads a group of soldiers on a raid of a Pict camp to rescue a captured general (Dominic West). The son of the Pict leader is murdered during the raid, and the Romans find themselves hunted by a seemingly unstoppable group of the Pict's most vicious and skilled warriors, led by a
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Cast
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Michael Fassbender
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Dominic West
General Titus Virilus, ... -
Olga Kurylenko
Etain -
Noel Clarke
Macros -
David Morrissey
Bothos -
J.J. Feild
Thax -
Axelle Carolyn
Aeron -
Andreas Wisniewski
Commander Gratus -
Dave Legeno
Vortix -
Lee Ross
Septus -
Ulrich Thomsen
Gorlacon -
Ryan Atkinson
Gorlacon's Son -
Paul Freeman
Governor Agricola -
Eoin Macken
Achivir -
Liam Cunningham
Brick -
Rizwan Ahmed
Tarak -
Imogen Poots
Arianne -
Rachael Stirling
Druzilla -
Michael Carter
General Antoninus -
Tom Mannion
General Tesio -
Peter Guinness
General Cassius -
Dimitri Leonidas
Leonidas -
Dhaffer L'Abidine
Arm Wrestling Opponent -
Simon Chadwick
Carlisle Messenger -
Jake Maskall
Roman Officer Argos -
Dermot Keaney
Pict Hunter -
Dylan Brown
Roman Guard
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All Critics (102) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (42) | DVD (5)
Auteur cinema of a very narrow stripe, this personalizes a familiar genre to advance a singularly pessimistic view of humanity.
Top CriticCenturion wraps itself in talk of duty and honor, but really it's just another cinematic death-trip.
Marshall is big on desaturated imagery, which imparts to the film's copious amounts of hemoglobin the look of squid ink.
The film has a resigned bitterness, hard to shake off, that feels right for the experience of tough guys, from whatever period of history, who find themselves at the tattered edge of what they take to be civilization.
Marshall shows off the breathtaking landscape, but with interiors, he populates the ale houses and encampments with cliches.
Bloody well done.
A darned entertaining outing from a director who knows action and doesn't share Hollywood's fear of period pieces that don't involve Greek gods.
Michael Fassbender can carry a movie.
With a raucous, gruesome tone, this Roman-era British action movie takes us back in time in such a vivid way that we often feel a bit queasy while watching. If the story were stronger, we'd be glued to the screen.
The sight of a technologically superior occupying force coming a cropper in hostile foreign territory inescapably brings modern Afghanistan to mind.
Director Neil Marshall thrills yet again setting forth his own vision of the gladiator epic that pays tribute to the classic tropes of the sub-genre, but is concurrently a revenge film and journey in to darkness...
Centurion is the kind of B movie you watch on a Saturday night, your entire reaction encapsulated in one critically dodgy but apropos sentiment: "It kicks ass."
Features a commitment to craft that helps overcome issues of storytelling by providing a visceral, violent experience designed to get you in your gut and bones more than in your heart or head.
It's a cat and mouse game where we are stuck rooting for the cat even though it killed and raped thousands of mice.
If I believed in the concept of "guilty pleasures," I'd classify Centurion as one, but I think I maybe just kind of enjoyed it.
A pre-chainsaw extravaganza where the Romans talk like James Bond and the Picts have better military backgrounds than the American generals who invaded Afghanistan.
The real fate of the 9th Legion may never be known, but I'm sure whatever happened to them was more interesting than this movie.
Marshall's film has a good helping of subtle smarts, but he is more concerned through most of the running time with carnage and bloody thrills.
Centurion is like 'Gladiator' directed by Freddy Krueger
... fine for a midnight screening or a Saturday matinee (although it's too violent for kids) but doesn't hold up under close scrutiny.
Audience Reviews for Centurion
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- Arianne: Her soul is an empty vessel, only roman blood can fill.
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- Centurion Quintus Dias: My name is Quintus Dias, I am a soldier of Rome, and this neither the beginning nor the end of my story.
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- Centurion Quintus Dias: In the chaos of battle, when the ground beneath your feet is a slurry of blood, puke, piss and the entrails of friends and enemies alike, it's easy to turn to the gods for salvation. But it's soldiers who do the fighting, and soldiers who do the dying, and the gods never get their feet wet.
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Foreign Titles
- Centurión: lucha o muere (ES)
