A good movie...not recommended for young children

Rating: 4/10 (24 August 2010)

I have never seen any of Neil Marshall's films, so this was the first of his films that I saw. Centurion was a good movie but not the greatest, tho I liked it but it will never get as close to Ridley Scott's Gladiator. However it was more brutal than Gladiator, it was quite entertaining to watch. Some of the parts were a little too graphic for me though.
I understood where Marshall was going with this film, because it's about the disappearance of Rome's ninth legion and what might have caused them to vanish from history from his point of view. Most suggest that a Celtic tribe may have been responsible and there are doubts on whether the Legion reached Scotland or not.
Michael Fassbender and Dominic West were good but I couldn't take them seriously as Roman soldiers and was very used to their roles as Spartans. Olga Kurylenko as the cold-hearted and brutal huntress did good but her role is not as memorable since her character remained mute the entire time.
Centurion is one of those movies that allows the audience to question which side is good and which side is bad. Do we pity more on the Picts or the surviving Romans? Which side is protecting themselves? Centurion is a good movie, but it's definitely not recommended for young children and for those that are not used to graphic violence.