Absolutely dreadful. Boring, trivial, immature, ridiculous dialogues, terrible narrative, every single game of thrones episode beats this nonsense with ease. How could Kingsley, Firth, McKidd, Glen, Hannah, Siddig, Mullan, Cosmo fall for this? What's the world coming to? Fantasy costumes in a fantasy world, a ridiculous simplification of historical context, chuck norris grade fight scenes and what's that girl doing with swords? Utter waste of time. It would have been so easy to weave in the Arthus legend in a more interesting, mysterious and less predictable way. Too brutal for 12 year olds, too simple for 18 year olds+. And those goths? Sure...20 guys wearing fur..must be goths.

Most people behind this film are Italians, and you can tell that from the design: theatrical almost operatic story, colorful staging, great imagination, playful development of characters and story, florid fabulation and great joy of epic story-telling - most of the production names are De Laurentiis. All this makes up for not a bad movie at all. In fact, the story is not incredible, although utterly untruthful, and both Ben Kingsley and Colin Firth make credible characters and performances enough. Focus is though on the boy, who is the only thoroughly splendid character, both as an invention, the type and his development and acting. What actually happened is unknown, but both Odovakar and Romulus are historical figures. In the film the events of Romulus' abdication occur in 460 after having been emperor for no more than a year, while it actually happened in 476 but is historically correct. No one knows what happened to Romulus, however - his fate is lost in history, and his young character and mystery is like made for legends. Odovakar did not remain king of Rome very long, being soon overthrown by Theoderic the Great of the Ostrogoths. Vortigern, the awful villain of the film, did exist but remains a rather doubtful character - in the film he is grossly exaggerated to fit the role of a supreme villain, a tyrant of great paranoia and cruelty, while some sources name him the discoverer of Merlin. A great epic adventure film made on a great epic story, in brief, a worthwhile entertainment with the positive consequence that it must raise your interest in the darkest medieval history.

there are some dimwits trying to rate this movie as a box office leading movie or something. The movie for what it is is really good. It's entertaining at the very least. You will recognize many familiar actors if you watch these sorts of movies and shows. Most of them are younger or up and coming stars and you can tell in the movie. I recognized characters from HBOs Rome, Vikings, Spartacus and I think even Troy. It's not too bad for a family movie, and had a decent plot which looked to be a lead in to another movie involving Merlin and King Arthur. There are a few corny pieces in it, but it's a twisted tail of roman history and medieval times. All and all I thought it was worth the watch.

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.