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Rating: Null/10 (15 December 2010)

Lets be honest. Production, not bad but it's all fiction. So we get this Brit eyed view of history as it was not. The accents are enough to make any thinking historian laugh out loud I was expecting .. gotta fiver ? There is in fact very little history at all in this film. At least in Gladiator those roman Legions 'leggio' DID fight at those places like Teutoburg forrest An ongoing project by a fading empire to convince us that Britain DEFEATED ROME. The servants of dour england just WISH they had a Thermopylae. They did not. Not even close. Rome left. it was not driven out. It left for same reason so many brits have left. To get away from drizzle and bad food. The British empire was not about conquest, it was about escape.
Like Iraq.. history is made by any damn fool who speaks first A British righthand job