Of course, we can't put this film on the same scale as GLADIATOR. But I was amazingly surprised by this brutal, fierce, bloody tale of a bunch of roman soldiers on rampage.
We find here very interesting characters with no real lead. Many surprises too in this story. No silly good guys vs bad guys scheme either, as we could expect. Even with those we could see at first as the "evil" ones, we can feel empathy for them. Take for instance Etain, the woman character, the hunter and killer woman, we know here that she was raped when she was a child and saw her parents wiped out just before her eyes. I love this character. We should see more like this one in the movies.
This feature reminds me John Mc Tiernan's THIRTEENTH WARRIOR or I don't remember his name's VALHALLAH RISING.
Only the very ending disappointed me. The final sequence. For sissies only.
We find here very interesting characters with no real lead. Many surprises too in this story. No silly good guys vs bad guys scheme either, as we could expect. Even with those we could see at first as the "evil" ones, we can feel empathy for them. Take for instance Etain, the woman character, the hunter and killer woman, we know here that she was raped when she was a child and saw her parents wiped out just before her eyes. I love this character. We should see more like this one in the movies.
This feature reminds me John Mc Tiernan's THIRTEENTH WARRIOR or I don't remember his name's VALHALLAH RISING.
Only the very ending disappointed me. The final sequence. For sissies only.