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Centurion is a 2010 British historical action film written and directed by Neil Marshall, loosely based on the disappearance of the Roman Empire's Ninth Legion in Caledonia in the early second century AD. The film stars Michael Fassbender, Dominic West and Olga Kurylenko. It received mixed reviews and performed poorly at the box office, earning $7.9 million against a $12–15 million budget.
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Image From its ominous opening, Marshall's eye for capturing hostile landscapes and bringing raw, bleak war scenes to life is evident. Michael Fassbender and Dominic West dominate the screen with fierce acting duels. Their characters, one Roman, the other Pictish, are tormented souls in constant collision. Marshall's camera plunges into the violence of combat with a rawness reminiscent of the masters of war c…More
The Roman Ninth Legion existed. The Legion also truly engaged the Picts in the early second century. Beyond those basic facts, Centurion prefers to fill in the blanks with an odd mix of anachronistic hackneyed dialogue and graphic violence. This film will probably excel among fans of graphic comics, while falling completely flat as a period piece. I fall somewhere in between. Centurion introduces us to a Gladiator n…More