Fresh
Auteur cinema of a very narrow stripe, this personalizes a familiar genre to advance a singularly pessimistic view of humanity.
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Centurion
History is written in blood
2010 · 1h 37m · R
Action, Adventure, Drama
Directed by
Neil Marshall
Overview
Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.
Director and cast
- Neil Marshall Director
- Michael Fassbender as Centurion Quintus Dias
- Olga Kurylenko as Etain
- David Morrissey as Bothos
- Liam Cunningham as Brick
- Dominic West as General Titus Flavius Virilus
- Imogen Poots as Arianne
- Ulrich Thomsen as Gorlacon
- JJ Feild as Thax
- Noel Clarke as Macros
- Dimitri Leonidas as Leonidas
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
61%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Centurion wraps itself in talk of duty and honor, but really it's just another cinematic death-trip.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
Rotten
Marshall is big on desaturated imagery, which imparts to the film's copious amounts of hemoglobin the look of squid ink.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Fresh
The film has a resigned bitterness, hard to shake off, that feels right for the experience of tough guys, from whatever period of history, who find themselves at the tattered edge of what they take to be civilization.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Rotten
Marshall shows off the breathtaking landscape, but with interiors, he populates the ale houses and encampments with cliches.
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
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