CENTURION
Story: A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is decimated in a devastating guerrilla attack.
WOW. I mean......WOW. This movie clocks in at 97 min and I'd say you're looking at about 96 minutes of just badassness. This is the new movie from one of my favorite directors working today - Neil Marshall. He is responsible for one of, if not the scariest movie of the past 10 years - THE DESCENT along with a few other awesome movies - Dog Soldiers and Doomsday. As a director, he is pretty straight forward. He writes and directs hardcore, badass movies. That's it. Seriously, he's 4 for 4. When I took Lauren to see The Descent in theaters, 2 people left during and afterwards we just stood in silence in the sun to shake off what we just witnessed. True Story. And Doomsday? Imagine all the best 80's action movies, add the same amount of blood from Braveheart AND Gladiator, throw in Bob Hoskins, cannibalism, and 2008 technology and thats Doomsday.
Anyway, back to Centurion. This follows a group of Roman soldiers stranded behind enemy lines after being attacked by the Picts. Who are the Picts? Crazy woods people who use nature, weather, night, and any other advantage to just destroy their opponents. Exhibit A - they take out a whole "legion" of soldiers in one battle. You do NOT mess with the Picts. They capture the Roman general, the soldiers head off to get him back and excitement ensues. And never stops. Like I said earlier, this movie is 97 minutes. Basically if you took all of Bravehearts fight scenes, combined them with some story scenes, thats Centurion. And these fight scenes are just as brutal and messy as anything in Braveheart/Gladiator/Troy/etc.
Beautifully shot, very well acted, and some of the best all out war scenes I've seen in some time, Centurion is a movie I highly recommend. It is currently on Netflix Instant.
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