Sweet fairy tale falsification, but not the last legion

Rating: 2/10 (20 August 2010)

One of the sweet history falsifications nicely implied into the fine family movie. A lot of Anglo-Saxon and Western propaganda on the Ancient history, as usual. A lot of facts mixed up with a lot of historical nonsense make this film a mish-mash good afternoon entertainment for your kid. First of all, the path of the last Western Roman Emperor has nothing to do with this movie. Emperor August was captured by Odocar and sent to Southern Italy fortress from where he never came back as far as history knows. He did not have blood of the Caesars but was a son of a Roman who was Athila's clerk in occupied Pannonia region and who came to high position in Rome and later appointed his 12 year of son as Romulus Augustulus a Roman Emperor. There was no sword of Julius Caeser connected to King Arthur (whose existence has also never been proved), no Legions to fight Goths or anyone else to save the emperor ... also, we got some banal mistakes as wrong costumes of Eastern Roman uniforms at that time - ones shown in the movie look like Arabian. Worst of all is global encyclopedia dogma served in this movie as well: this was not the last legion; the last Roman Legion had seen the seventh century in the Estern Roman Empire. After that was transformed as military formation. Also, that time was not the fall of Rome, because Rome lasted all the way to 15th century even though attacked, ravaged, sacked and raped by the worst criminals in human history - "Crusaders" and imperiled by many other barbarians and savages mostly coming from the very same west. That is what Rome left as legacy to Brits: pillage and hunger for the Roman gold. Whole Churches had been sacked and transported to the west during these decades of ravaging. Capitol of the Roman Empire from 4th century - Constantinople, lasted for almost 1000 years more as biggest and most developed city in that time world by all means. It is so hard for today Westerners to mention that and it is clear why. Even without mentioning Christianity in the West or the East, Last Legion got lost trying to imply the topic of "Fall of the Roman Empire" being clumsy in covering the fact that only the Western Roman Province of Italy had fallen, and Roman Empire continued to exist for thousand years more developing a high civilization that is going to distinguish every day more and more from barbarians around them, including these that occupied Italy, all the way until she falls. All in all, turn on your DVD players and turn off your brain ...