The Last Legion

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462396/

I give this movie 4/5 clubs (was the best custom symbol I could find lol)

I found the movie to be awesome. Not award winning awesome, not 5 star awesome, but awesome for me. It was pretty well acted. Colin Firth is always good. And who doesn’t love Thomas Sangster, he is just too cute and such a brilliant little actor. I loved him in Love Actually!

The story centres around the fall of Rome, the last of the Ceasar’s and the fall of Vortigern in Britannia. Now I don’t want to give anything away to those who haven’t yet seen the movie. But this may give little bits away. I LOVED the fact that they bought a capable female character into the story. She was inspirational in her ability and inner strength.

It was a more realistic way of dealing with the origins of the sword of the Pendgragon. And I loved the way they did the fireballs. Made it seem like magic but then reassured the watchers as to the power of suggestion and symbolism in a fight and what can be achieved by real people.

The countryside was beautiful!

The movie seemed to draw on some of the same legends and inspirations that my favourite Merlin trilogy by Mary Stewart does. And I will have to get a hold of the book that was part of the inspiration for the movie. While I am sure the purists of the Arthurian and Excalibur tales will be a bit against this movie because it does not follow some of the conventional paths. But in the end it is just a movie. The places in my mind that move away from the “truth” make it more enjoyable to my mind in this instant.

I thoroughly recommend this movie to anyone who likes historic movies, sword fights, tales of the sword or Colin Firth. It was a really enjoyable Saturday night movie. (Friday night is horror or action, Saturday is action or adventure, sunday afternoon is family movie time and Sunday night is drama or adventure…well as a broad generalisation in our household…granted it is held to loosely at times)