Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The infant emperor of Rome turns to a faithful legionnaire to rescue him from captivity and assist his flight to a far off land ...The story is based on a novel, which I bet was plenty fat. There is a huge amount of history and incident packed into a very slim 105m run time, to the point where our heroes survey a snowy Alpine pass for a moment before a map-montage of Transalpine Gaul flashes up to represent their epic journey to Britannia, where they conveniently step to shore from a boat. And it turns out this is a prequel to a very famous myth, promoted to the status of legend by its Roman associations.So the story is hugely ambitious but with only a fraction of the resources needed to deliver a satisfying production. At least that's the way it feels, yet it has a stellar cast and a huge budget. And the script is by a renowned playwright, and some of the locations are interesting (especially the recreation of the Isle of Capri). Something doesn't add up.It's not just that the dialogue is painfully plain, but the editing and writing keeps hurrying us along through what should be a fascinating land of oddities and magical encounters. For some reason the story is coy about magic, only hinting that it's anything more than a clever hoax, and the climactic battle is extras in a field spinning and kicking and roaring, while the showdown with the nemesis opens with a "startled!" sound effect as a little girl looks around and ... he's there! Just bizarrely bad. I imagine the screenplay came in at 180 pages, and the producer said, "Great - cut it in half. With a sword."The cast do OK with stiff lines, and the actress with the amazing blue eyes has less difficulty convincing us she's the unlikeliest all-action knife twirler than that she enjoys any chemistry with the glum leading man. The music is lavish orchestral stuff, but no big deal.Overall: Interesting concept, underwhelming delivery.

This film has the kind of cast that most directors can only dream of including Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley. So how it turned into such a car crash is a mystery. The result is a complete mess. Roman history and the King Arthur legend do not fit together. The film King Arthur starring Clive Owen proved that. Somewhere in this film is a good plot. However, you'll need a good compass to find it.

The year is 460 A.D., Rome is weak and a new child emperor is crowned. Rome soon falls to the Goths, and the emperor is taken prisoner. All that's left is a handful of men who are obligated by duty to rescue him. The men are led by Aurelius (Colin Firth) and the emperor's mysterious former guardian Ambrosinus (Ben Kingsley). They travel to Britannia to find The Last Legion that could be counted on to be loyal to the emperor.From there, it becomes ridiculous and tries to tie in another legendary story. Whole sections are rushed or skipped. The action is passable but lack drama. There are many plot holes. Logic is thrown out the window. They bend over backwards to try and close this story loop. It's more awkward than poetic as may be hoped.

First off let me say i know a little bit about history and the historical inaccuracies made me want to kill myself. The violence was awful and i hate that technique where you are about to see something violent and then it cuts away. It was a stupid idea making this pg- 13 because if it was R it could be like 300 or Immortals and the inaccuracies don't matter just hot women and people dying. I was about to stop watching until that hot girl came out of the water and I still almost regret finishing it. It had good actors so that was not a problem but after i looked this movie up I found it was based on a book and very loosely based on that book. Seriously the people who made this movie like the director did not know what they were doing and they do not know anything about history or common sense. There were Goths wearing fur on a hot island in the sea for crying out loud. And the idea was just a copy from the movie King Arthur with Clive Owen that ties it to the Roman Empire which was smart cause they had enough to make it work but this did not.