http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/14/centurion...e-trailer/

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Official Plot Synopsis: CENTURION AD 117. The Roman Empire stretches from Egypt to Spain, and East as far as the Black Sea. But in northern Britain, the relentless onslaught of conquest has ground to a halt in face of the guerrilla tactics of an elusive enemy: the savage and terrifying tribes known as the Picts. Quintus, 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. But when the legion is ambushed on unfamiliar ground, and Virilus taken captive, Quintus faces a desperate struggle to keep his small platoon alive behind enemy lines, evading remorseless Pict pursuers over harsh terrain, as the band of soldiers race to rescue their General, and to reach the safety of the Roman frontier. From writer/director, Neil Marshall, CENTURION is a gripping survival thriller set against a background of conquest and invasion; a pursuit movie in the vein of Deliverance, Last of the Mohicans and Apocalypto. CENTURION premieres on VOD, XBOX and Amazon.com on July 23 and opens in theaters August 27, 2010.

any opinions?

Wait for "Eagle of the Ninth," February, 2011.

i jsut finished watching this and i must say, i really liked it. roman arms and armor seemed accurate enough (though i'm sure others have a better eye for it). the thing that bothered me the most is that pict weapons seem to be made of some super metal that sliced though armor like butter.

i enjoyed the cast and saw a number of familiar faces. i believe it is already out in europe (at least on dvd) and therefore is available through the obvious outlets

Saw it a while back at a film festival in Montreal. Pretty good, not very original but entertaining. Dominic West was great as usual and Olga Kurylenko (the last James Bond girl) was pretty convincing as the crazy/vengeful mute pict huntress.

Edit : one thing I found is that it tried a bit too hard to look like the first sequence in Gladiator.

I just watched this last night and I enjoyed it. I have to say the fight scenes were pretty graphic. Legs and arms flyin' everywhere, heads gettin' lopped off. It made Braveheart look like a kid's after school special, heh.

I wanted to see this when I first heard of it. Is it already in theators? Man time flys.

Is there going to be non-stop music during the battle scenes - overwrought orchestral swells and choir chanting? If so, I can't watch it. I can't take movies that do this. I really prefer minimal musical accompaniment to combat scenes.

The only movie where I was completely thrown out of any sort of immersion was Ladyhawke. If you hate movie music, I advice you to watch that movie. After that, nothing will bother you anymore.

If anything, I think it will be entertaining. As with most epic films, I think this movie will (probably) have an overuse of heroic music, but as many of you have pointed....as long as it's well used, it should be fine....With "historical" films, my main concern is the use of accurate costumes (including swords, armors) and battle formations.

Eyal

I did think the music score for 'Last of The Mohicans' and 'Legends of The Fall' where excellent (old romantic) and they often get a playing when the home is empty and I can enjoy the music to myself.

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Dave

I'm sort of an extremist when it comes to this ideology but I really think that most movies grossly overuse and misuse background music and that it makes the films predictable and cheesy, killing the tension and the visual art of the scene. One of my favorite films, Dog Day Afternoon, famously has no music at all (except for one song by Elton John over the opening credits) and it increases the tension of the movie a hundred fold by omitting a soundtrack. Barry Lyndon has some great battle sequences but the only music in them comes from the pipers and drummers who are actually marching into combat. When I watched The Patriot recently, the overwrought orchestral accompaniment to the battles completely took me out of the movie and ruined it for me.

If the movie`s plot is in Britain would`nt the celtic tribe the Romans would be fighting be the Britons? The picts were set in Scotland.....

Well atleast heres one thing we all know the Celtic Gaels werent in this at all. There in Ireland