This one almost slipped underneath my radar but was staring me in the face when I clicked onto the front page of You-Tube.
While this production certainly looks more ambitious than the last King Arthur movie. It still gives me the impression that doesn't have same winning formula stuff as 'Excaliber' or even 'Monty Python's Holy Grail'/'Jabbywocky'
What starts out as a serious adaption of the legend, ends haveing some fantacy elements woven in with Merlin using real magic and other stuff that would put this film into the same categroy as that Beowulf film made two years ago that must have gone straight to video.
Anyway, just watch the trailer and make up you own mind.
Link: The Last Legion
I can't get sound on my PC at the moment, but what I saw looks quite good.
One thing I disliked about the previous Arthur film (King Arthur) was how all his knights were taken to be of non British origin (sardacean or sarmatian I believe).
Whilst historically speaking there were recruits from that region working as auxilaries in the Roman army, and the real Arthur and his warband might have been influenced by them I disliked the direct link as portrayed in the film. It kind of spoilt the legend for me suggesting that all the heroic progenitors of this british legend were not actually british but either roman, sarmatian or picts.
And making out that the northern tribes, the picts as being the britons who joined with Arthur against the saxons... well actually it's thought that historically it was the saxons who joined with the picts against the britons.
(There are theories that the picts were those native britons who were never romanized, but it's also that they were culturally separate from the tribes of the rest of Britain.)
Well, it is kind of a waste of time applying historical fact to a story that is a legend- that is- not true.
This looks bloody awful. Which is a shame, because there's so much room in Arthurian mythology in the Geoffrey of Monmouth/morte d'arthur/general romantic vibe. Imagine a miniseries on the scope of Rome, and you've basically got my mythological wet dream...
It's alright.
It's quite a fun adventure film. And the Arthur stuff doesn't crop up until right at the end.
It's based on a novel by Valero Massimo Manfredi
Making a King Arthur movie and deliberately not using Arthurian mythology is kind of audacious.
Itâ??s crap, obvious, but still audacious.
Its film trailer voice over guy again ! King Arthur is just a name tag a far as this film is concerned but its probably enjoyable anyway.