Enjoyed this film especially Colin Firth

Rating: Null/10 (13 February 2008)

I chose this film on DVD as it had Colin Firth in it and was set in Roman Briton. I watched it after Atonement (wow) and thought it was good, lots of brilliant British character actors of good calibre. I wondered if it had been made alongside "Rome" (brilliant series) using some of its sets and actors. The budget was obviously not big. As I watched this film I thought it would be really good as a Sunday tea time serial as it would be OK for kids and one of the stars is a kid. It was a bit rushed. The beautiful Indian actress with the amazing blue eyes in it starred in Bride and Prejudice,( The Bollywood movie,really good, check out Sayid from Lost dancing) which I thought was really apt as Colin Firth is the best Mr Darcy ever. I have seen many films worse than this. Poliakof is like watching paint dry and you wonder why you wasted time watching it.
It was no worse than the Golden Compass in my humble opinion. Which obviously had a huge budget to play with.