Basically uninteresting...

Rating: 3/10 (21 May 2019)

I had watched The Eagle before watching Centurion, so I'm biased as I enjoyed the Eagle and would buy it on DVD.
Centurion did not impress me. I'm not a historian so I won't go into too much detail. One goof mentioned was the riders using stirrups. These were not invented in Roman times so not used. It is difficult to criticise reconstructions of the Picts as we know virtually nothing about them. Its good they had the Picts speak Scots Gaelic as some level of ancient tribal can be imagined from this. Its a shame they couldn't have the Romans speaking Latin, but there we go.
One major error was that they had Arianna 'exiled for witchcraft'. In those days before the Roman Empire became Christian, and even for some time after, all the peoples of Europe were tribal shamanic, and witchcraft would have been normal. Even the Romans had their own forms of this, in their deities, temples and rituals. So she would not have been exiled for witchcraft. this was not yet a Christian Empire and the Picts were certainly not Christians.
He had the Romans bantering like British soldiers. Romans were not British. They may have been Italic, or Hispanic or Germanic, but British as in the modern British soldier, did not exist then. So his representation of Roman soldiery would have been better based on how Spanish, or Italian or French or Greek soldiers interact. Cultural differences are important, esp. 2000 yrs ago. The Eagle made such interactions more 'neutral' so that culture did not enter into it so much.
OK, it wasn't the worst movie I've ever seen, but it could have been a lot better, more engrossing. I found none of the cast esp/ likeable or sympathetic. I guess some succeed and other don't. I might have given it 4 stars but the historical inaccuracies were a bit too glaring, and I just didn't enjoy it. IMHO, The Eagle is a much better story, much more enjoyably told.