When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil.
Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people. In thirteenth-century England, a Knights Templar and a few of the Barons men fight to defend Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John.
| Soldiers, trapped behind enemy lines and trying to escape, are chased by their relentless, merciless and savage foes. August 27, 2010
The Roman Empire stretches from Egypt to Spain, and East as far as the Black Sea.
R (for sequences of strong bloody violence, grisly images and language)
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. | Rating: 3/5 So it's a hazardous chase over mountainous and treacherous terrain while trying to survive killers looking for vengeance. Michael Fassbender stars as Quintus Dias, Roman centurion and son of a legendary gladiator who leads a group of soldiers on a raid of a Pict camp to rescue a captured general (Dominic West).
Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a quest to banish a mysterious threat in a distant Viking land. Overall, Centurion is a fairly run-of-the-mill action film and doesn't really have much ambition.
Magnolia Pictures
Pulsating. It's a manhunt film which is not bad in itself, but the whole setting promises so much more than that and in the end the film never truly delivers.
A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is devastated in a guerrilla attack. Centurion should have been better and though I found it entertaining, I really felt something was missing to make this a truly memorable film. A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador. 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.Rated R for sequences of strong bloody violence, grisly images and language
Starring Michael Fassbender, Olga Kurylenko, Imogen Poots, and Dominic West, the film has a solid cast.
The son of the Pict leader is murdered during the raid, and the Romans find themselves hunted by a seemingly unstoppable group of the Pict's most vicious and skilled warriors, led by a beautiful and deadly tracker (Olga Kurylenko), and hell bent on revenge.-- (C) Magnolia