Interesting

Rating: 5/10 (4 December 2010)

I will call this movie interesting. I liked the look of the movie and the flow of the film, but it had a lot of flaws to it. The first major flaw is that the Roman army is wearing chain mail and some have metal armor---which is 1,000 years prior to their invention. The army forms a shield wall during battle, which got my interest peaked, but when the enemy charged the Romans did not stay in the shield wall but rushed the enemy--Roman soldiers would have stayed in the shield wall and would have beaten that attack. The female antagonist defeats a "celebrated" Roman general in hand-to-hand combat---ridiculous. The lead is a former son of a gladiator who talks about how his father taught him to fight---thus he would have been more dangerous than the picts chasing them. The Romans flee from the picts rather than fight and the 7 surviving Romans would have probably beaten the pict hunting party with ease. Overall the historical part was a sham, but the picture was not as bad as you would think.