Not Even Close to Historical Accuracy

Rating: 4/10 (17 August 2007)

The movie had decent qualities to it. It won't win Academy Awards (but then again with all the crap coming out of Hollywood lately, it might).
My problem is this: Hollywood cannot simply take history at face value. It constantly has to tinker with it, and when it does not like it, completely re-writes it. (Think Pochahantus) Romulus Augustus, was barely 13 when was deposed by the Germanic king, Odoacer and lived a very private and uneventful life at his villa estates on the coast of Italy.
Yet Hollywood needed to rewrite this sad final chapter in the Western Roman Empire's history.