Not great, or even good

Rating: 4/10 (23 August 2010)

Neil Marhall has brought us some fantastic movies. but this is not one of them.
The Scottish scenery is stunning, but there is little else to recommend this aimless amble through an alternative history of the Romans stopping in Northern England. The formulae are well worn and but the plot never really seems to work out what it wants to be: Is it an action movie, a buddy movie against the odds, a political thriller, or a forbidden romance? It's simultaneously all and none, everything is touched upon but nothing is developed. Ultimately it leaves the viewer as unsatisfied as its threads of plot.
Sure, watch it on DVD, but don't expect much more than a bit of gore and a half-hearted effort at a decent movie. 4/10.