blood and sheep

Rating: 4/10 (8 February 2011)

hmmmmmmm, not sure about this one. A good quantity of blood splatter every time a sword strikes and some nice cinema photography, not much else i'm afraid...... The Story is quite frankly just stupid,I can see historians choking on their cup of tea! Some big leaps of faith are needed for the viewer to keep watching without saying what the f*$£"k. My advice is not to think about things as you watch it, maybe drink a few beers first and just enjoy the sword play such as it is. They seemed to put all the effort into blood splatter effects and not so much into choreographing the fight scenes though some scenes were good. I will say the right actors were in place and did there best. The film was entertaining as I was able to switch my brain off for most of the film! Not bad at all for an English film going by recent efforts!
For future ref to film makers hunters on horseback catching up to their prey and loosing them several times is not very realistic, these boys must have been olympic runners or something......
One final point, why were the romans the heroes of the film? it seems there's a lot of Brit bashing going on in films these days. You'd think as England once had an empire spanning half the world, being an island race we have also defended against virtually every nation in Europe trying to invade us in ancient times and modern - some interesting stories there - there should at least be a few modern movies where the Brits are not the villains!!!!!