Gripping, lush action adventure.

Rating: 10/10 (15 August 2010)

I already had high expectations of this film because of The Descent, and Centurion lived up to them. It's inevitably going to be compared with Gladiator, but this is a different sort of movie. Smaller scale but no less sumptuous visually, this is an exhilarating action/chase movie with gorgeous (real) locations that make Scotland look as grand as Lord of the Rings.
The cast are uniformly excellent too, despite (or perhaps because of) harsh filming conditions in real snow in winter in the Scottish mountains.
Not for the squeamish - there's plenty of blood and carnage, as you'd expect from a Neil Marshall film.
Definitely recommended.