DVD: The Last Legion

The Last Legion is the story that tells the of the beginning of King Arthur's famous sword Excalibur. Young Romulus has been sworn in as now the leader of Rome. During the night a man Goth who is a general of Rome named Odoacer decides to take his soldier and invade the city to take young Romulus alive, Romulus' royal guard Aurelius (Colin Firth) is taking out of the fight early and when he wakes he finds that the kid has been taken. Aurelius and a group of his closest men, and a warrior Mira (played by Aishwarya Rai) set out to rescue the kid who now is imprisoned at Capri along with the young boys mentor Ambrosinus (Ben Kingsley) they escape with the help of Aurelius with the sword Excalibur. The group flees to Britain home of Ambrosinus. There they look to find the Ninth legion only to find Hadrian's Wall, the Ninth legion deserted the wall. The group learns that the Ninth legion become peasents and live at a local town. Everything leads to a final battle at Hadrian's Wall where they fight Vortgyn, who says he's the ruler of Britain and has been attacking the Ninth legion trying to take over the land that Rome has taken from him.

I like stories and movies about the Roman times when Rome was still standing, and other movies with sword fighting and epic battle scenes. I liked King Arthur, which touched on a little bit of Roman and had great action and decent acting. I love the TV show "Rome." But this, The Last Legion was at first entertaining but has the story when on and was nearing the end I just wasn't caring anymore. If you truly want to watch a great well done story, please go out and buy the 2 seasons of Rome because The Last Legion has nothing.

The beginning did have the feel of that it was going to come out good, but then it fell way down. During the fight scenes I thought they over-used the editing tool way to much. All the fight scenes I'm talking about are the fights with Aishwarya Rai in them, while watching them they where constantly cutting and I'm a fun of just show long takes of fight you don't need to cut that much. A couple cuts is OK. Overall I thought it average, It wasn't good but it also wasn't the worst movie of all time. Overall I would have to say skip this movie.

DVD

The Last Legion is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen with 5.1 English Dolby Digital and has English and Spanish subtitles. The features are as followed:

• Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary.
• Fight Scene Cheography.
• From the Director's Sketchbook: A Storyboard-to-Film Comparison.
• Making of The Last Legion.
• Theatrical Trailer.

Really the only feature I really liked on this DVD was the Fight Scene Choreography, really because I got to see most all the fight scenes with having it cut every other second. Everything else I really didn't care for much because I didn't really care for the movie. I would say skip the DVD.