Sign In. Play trailer Action Drama History. Director Neil Marshall. Neil Marshall. Top credits Director Neil Marshall. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Centurion: U. Centurion: UK Trailer. Photos Top cast Edit. Olga Kurylenko Etain as Etain. Dave Legeno Vortix as Vortix. Axelle Carolyn Aeron as Aeron. JJ Feild Thax as Thax. Lee Ross Septus as Septus. Actually, he's selling his film, which was directed by horror maven Neil Marshall " The Descent " , a bit short.
In some ways " Centurion " is closer to what its effects designer terms "a Roman ' Die Hard. This part I could have done without. When in Rome, let's not drag in Abu Ghraib. She's a banished Pict, hence a potential friend.
It's amazing the lengths to which filmmakers will go to work a little nuzzling into a scenario that's about as potentially romantic as a sumo wrestling match. Marshall is big on desaturated imagery, which imparts to the film's copious amounts of hemoglobin the look of squid ink.
He also favors speeded-up helicopter shots of vast vistas and slow-motion carnage. He fetishizes violence, it's true — the close-ups of throat slashings and body piercings are almost abstractly rendered. But compared with, say, Mel Gibson 's " Apocalypto ," which featured this sort of stuff in practically every frame, Marshall's film is downright Disneyish.
The blood-bucket quotient, one hopes, will be lower. No word yet about the fate of the Picts. Soul Kitchen. The Last Exorcism. Dave Legeno. David Morrissey. Dhaffer L'Abidine. Hamish Moir. Imogen Poots. Jake Maskall.
James Currie. JJ Feild. Noel Clarke. Paul Freeman. Governor Julius Agricola. What happens before and mostly after this is that the Ninth Legion, under the command of lusty Gen. Titus Flavius Virilus Dominic West , immortal as McNulty on "The Wire" , is sent on a mission that goes disastrously wrong when the imperial forces are beset by Pictish fireballs.
For the rest of the film, the aforementioned bedraggled handful of Roman survivors are stalked over mountain and dale by a murderous band of dogged Picts, which becomes the occasion for some jokey " Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid " references about cliffs and posses. For close-up contrast, there's the obligatory idyll at the forest hut of the enchantress Arianne Imogen Poots , a beautiful, ostracized Pict witch who hides the men from their pursuers, feeds them and nurses or bewitches the wounded back to health.
You've seen this scene so many times before in these kinds of movies that you know exactly what happens, and it does, but even when we get near enough to the characters to recognize their physiognomy, they remain dramatically featureless. Like all war movies indeed, practically all movies in the last seven years, "Centurion" also features deliberate references to more recent guerilla insurgency warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, which aren't really subtle enough to be called subtext.
They're text, taken straight from modern newsbites. As in: "This is a new kind of war, a war without honor, war without end. It will not come as a surprise to learn that "Centurion" has been rated R by the MPAA, but that's for language as well as violence. The Roman soldiers drop f-bombs and s-bombs hither and yon across the Cairngorms, reminding us of the piquant Latin and Celtic origins of the English language as it is spoken to this very day.
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