and this pretend to be good???

Rating: 1/10 (17 September 2007)

Well the plot is the same of Manfredi's book. The young kid Romulus is the last of Roman emperors. When Rome is sold to barbarians, he must go away to Britain to save his life, protected by his most faithful bodyguards. There, the last battle for the honour of Rome will begin, starting also the myth of King Arthur. This plot is not bad, and quite interesting, but is the only good thing of the movie. Characters are quite stupid, most of the dialogues are silly: the hand fight, the "seduction" of the captain, the finding of the sword, the attack to the Emperor's palace (and twenty barbarians conquer all Rome???). This, mixed with quite bad action scenes (all the fights are awful, there's no contact, in fact most of the time you can see the space between the bodies!!), worse special effects (Ambrosius throwing fire) and the worst of all is the historic facts: When was a LIberty Statue in Rome? Why the Emperor's palace is 3 metres far to the forest? It was not in the middle of Rome?? When there was huskies in the Roman Empire? (at the British town) Why the swords had no blood after beating an enemy?? (well, in the last battle they had...) In addition to this, the thing that upsets me more is the fact that the movie pretends to be good! It exhales an aura of: "I'm telling you the truth" that makes it irritating! It is almost insulting, doing something so bad, and indeed present it as a master piece.