My comment is on the Aussie review

Rating: 5/10 (18 May 2007)

There is always a danger when you criticize the facts that your own facts are wrong. You bravely stated that the Romans did not use a long sword.
In the time period of the movie, the fifth century the Romans did indeed use the long sword, the 'spatha'. The long cavalry sword had started to replace the short sword, 'gladius', as early as the 2nd century when Rome started to rely more and more on their cavalry force in place of the classic infantry legion. In the late empire even the foot soldiers relied on the longer sword.
The movie; well it doesn't quite cut it no matter which sword you use.