Decent Adventure? Yes. History? NO WAY!!

Rating: 7/10 (2 September 2007)

While I found this movie watchable, one would have had to REALLY hate history to find this even remotely an historical epic. The action scenes were fun, the acting was decent, and there were definitely some humorous moments (Ben Kingsly and the fireballs comes to mind). However, their perversion of history was frightening! Romulus was a usurper, he was the son of Attila the Huns secretary and was in no way, shape or form related to Julius Caesar, Odoacer not only didn't attempt to kill the boy, he gave him an estate in Southern Italy AND an annual allowance, and the Emperor Zeno in Constantinople would have been much more inclined to kill Romulus than Odoacer would have been, as he recognized his candidate for the Roman throne, Julius Nepopos, and wanted the kid out of the picture. And I won't even get started on dates (they open with a banner, 'Rome, 461'; Romulus didn't become Emperor until 475, and Roman troops left Britan during the reign of Honorius, 395-423), or the fact that Vortgyn was the British king who invited the Saxons and Angles into Briton to fight the Picts and Scots, and was definitely NOT killed by Merlin! History aside, though, it was a cute way to merge some historical facts with the Arthurian legend.