The Last Legion(2007)

Downhill from here.
Another movie about legionares killing barbarians. This sets in shortly after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, leaving Constantinople as the last vestige of Roman rule and ending the bloodline of the Caesars. Nearly. The last vestige of royal blood escapes to archaic Brittany to set up a new empire where he gets into a huge fight with the native Angelo Saxons. From there, the story turns into a prelude for King Arthur and his faggoty knights.

This woman is a Janissary, which is impossible, but absolutely necessary for the movie because the rest of the cast is NOTHING BUT MEN, which can be a real damper for a movie. Why? Think of other man only movies: Shawshank Redemption, Saving Private Ryan; it's just not the same.


The Last Legion was heavily blasted by the reviews, which said that the story was bland, the acting forced, and the premise just weird. I completely agree. It was so devoid of feeling that I would have closed it halfway through the movie if I had anything better to do. Neither particularly good or glaringly bad, this will sink to the bottom of the movie pile and be soon forgotten.

Rating: 40%