great movie!

Rating: 10/10 (5 June 2007)

Much more going on in this movie then you would think at first. If you read the book Eaters of The Dead then you will understand. This movie is as much about the change in culture brought on by the Romans as it is an action movie. Notice the armor they wear. If a captured slave fought hard enough, and survived, the Romans released them and many returned home. Roman culture was lead by men, elsewhere (The Americas, Northern Eruope etc.) woman were more often the teachers, doctors, leaders etc. You will notice these big burly Viking men do not make a move without a woman's advice. The other half of the unknown story is the bad guys. The boogie men are really Neandertals. Living on the fringes of ( and interbreeding with as modern day DNA research has shown) present day man.