Spoilers? This movie was spoiled while it was still a book

Rating: 1/10 (25 August 2007)

I've only walked out on 3 movies in my life: Motel Hell, Shrek, and the Last Legion.
I love this kind of movie: Alexander the Great, 300, etc. I never miss one. I can suspend my disbelief of the historical rape and usually enjoy the film.
The Last Legion was too much. The last Roman capital was at Ravenna. Romulus Augustus was born in 461 and would have been 14 or 15. The young emperor's father was killed in battle before Odacer reached the Roman capital where Romulus Augustus abdicated and either fled to or was exiled to southern Italy. He died there with little notice by the outside world. After his abdication, the world looked to the emperor that his father deposed (Nepos) as the legitimate Roman emperor. Constantinople recognized Odoacer as viceroy of Italy for Nepos, not Romulus Augustus.
So, maybe Romulus Augustus ditched Campania for Brittania with a group of loyal followers. Maybe. But they wouldn't have found the 9th legion there. The 9th was probably recalled to Germany and disintegrated during the revolts there in the mid 2nd century.
Finding the 9th legion in late 5th century Britain would be like finding Hession mercenaries from the Revolutionary war still holed up in Pennsylvania somewhere.
I left when I saw the battle brewing - a battle that none of the contestants would have been present for.
I will research the next historical film that I spend $9 to see. If anyone connected to this film was involved, I will skip it.