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Genre :

Action, Adventure

Release Date :

August 17, 2007

MPAA Rating :

PG-13

Director :

Doug Lefler

Starring :

Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai, Thomas Sangster, Peter Mullan, Iain Glen, Rupert Friend, Rory James, Lee Ingleby, Owen Teale

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Not quite bad, but it's not recommended either.    Readers  Be the 1st!

2 of 4

“..when a movie wants to be sold as a spectacle, it had better deliver something more spectacular than this..”
by James Berardinelli [ReelViews]
1.5 of 4

“..what are such fine actors doing in a mess like this?..”
by Liam Lacey [Globe and Mail]
2 of 4

“..There's no fun to be had here..”
by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe]
2 of 5

“..The Last Legion comes across as a TV movie that got out of control..”
by David Mercier [Film Judge]
1.5 of 4

“..The good guys are true blue, the bad guys are truly vile..”
by Mark Burger [Hollywood.com]
“..the fight scenes are sufficiently exciting..”
by Joe Leydon [Variety]
Review rate : B-

“..such a square and diligent piece of entertainment..”
by Colin Covert [Dallas Morning News]
2.5 of 5

“..succeeds as much as one can expect from a late-summer studio cast-off..”
by Jason Ferguson [Orlando Weekly]
“..Poorly written, perfunctory in its execution and labored in its attempts..”
by Frank Scheck [Hollywood Reporter]
“..He Came, He Saw, He Wimped Out..”
by Neil Genzlinger [NY Times]
1.5 of 4

“..a late-summer snooze..”
by Geoff Pevere [Toronto Star]
2.5 of 4

“..a forthright and old-fashioned spectacle..”
by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune]
0.5 of 4

“..a fantastically absurd mash-up of history and legend..”
by Ed Gonzalez [Slant Magazine]

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