Good old movie making...without the gore

Rating: 8/10 (20 August 2007)

This film had an innocence to it that you rarely see anymore. It harkened back to the bygone days before CGI.
I think the screenplay could have been better...the book had more character development...there was the troubled past of the hero Aurelius--the loss of his parents at the hands of Wulfila...which had been buried in his memory...and the child he saved who turns out to be Mira, his comrade in arms.
Colin Firth stepped up to the plate as the warrior Aurelius. I would have liked to have seen more of his relationship with Mira.
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