The Last Legion Reviews
Urban Cinefile
As the Roman Empire crumbles, undemanding escapist entertainment with wonderful production design and a cast.
Top CriticThere are, after all, aimed at young audiences plenty of movies more mean-spirited, indiscriminate and obnoxious than The Last Legion. But at the same time there are plenty that are, alas, less frustrating.
Times [UK]
No twist is too farfetched for this Dino De Laurentiis epic.
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| Original Score: 2/5
This is London
A good cast wallow about in a story you can't believe for a moment.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Daily Telegraph
Colin Firth is not an actor who projects sparkling joie de vivre at the best of times, and The Last Legion, a cod-Roman reimagining of Arthurian myth, is very much not the best of times.
Guardian [UK]
A hunk of old Brie, left all day in the glove compartment in a car on a hot summer's day, could not smell more ripe than this absurd sword'n'sandal Roman movie.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Film4
A novel hybrid of swords, sandals, horned helmets and furs, this really is a load of old rubbish, but there's some fun to be had, especially for boys who like to have mock sword fights with wooden sticks.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
BBC
Paper-thin characters, stilted conversations and abrupt editing mean this is hard to get involved with, and its link with Arthurian legend feels contrived and clichéd.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Crudely mangling Arthurian legend into Roman history, this creaky swords 'n' sandals romper trundles forward like a hurriedly upholstered TV movie.
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| Original Score: 2/6
Sky Movies
The action sequences are handled well enough but the CGI isn't up to snuff in a tale that barely merits the retelling.
Empire Magazine
This attempt at reimagining the Arthurian legend fails to raise the pulse due to some leaden dialogue and unconvincing performances.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Austin Chronicle
A wannabe sword-and-sandals saga.
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| Original Score: 0.5/5
Sacramento News & Review
...makes a hash of history, but...just think of it as a nifty adventure dreamed by an imaginative boy who dozed off in his grandfather's library.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Here's a strange concept: A goofy, Indiana-Jones-type spin on the pre-Arthur legend.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
Cinematical
While it's almost certainly guaranteed to be a box office bomb, I'm suspecting this goofy little adventure will earn a few bemused fans once it hits DVD.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Reel.com
A passably entertaining hodgepodge of sword-and-sandal film clichés and Arthurian romance.
| Original Score: 2/4
Christian Science Monitor
This take on the Arthurian legend is flawed but watchable.
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| Original Score: C+
Every once in a while, though, Firth's eyebrow hints, Can you believe I'm wearing this dorky leather breastplate?
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| Original Score: C
