Decent, gritty, period piece

Rating: 7/10 (25 September 2012)

Centurion is a pretty good period movie based in the wilds of Great Britian during the days of the Roman Empire. As far as the history presented and if it stayed true as far as weapons, costumes, the Picts, I don't know, but for me it was a pretty good movie.
Michael Fassbender is a pretty good actor and did a decent job as the Leader character, the Centurion Quintus Dias. The whole movie centers around the surviving Roman soldiers of an ambush being ruthlessly pursued, behind enemy lines, by their enemy the Picts, and there vengeful female tracker Etain (Olga Kurylenko). Kurylenko's character has a backstory, and she doesn't speak at all in the movie. I will say that she did a decent job with a non speaking part, and as gritty as this movie is, she is definitely a great piece of eye candy.
Overall it was a gritty movie, the costumes were pretty good the locations were great, and the story was decent. I hear the budget was pretty low for this movie, if so they did a pretty darn good job with what they had.
It isn't going to be the best movie you ever see, but it does succeed a bit more than others such as the deplorable Channing Tatum movie, The Eagle.