I could just about put up with the usual Hollywood nonsense of Americans playing non-American heroes but... When English actor Mark Strong turned up and actually PUT ON an American accent to play a Roman soldier I had to draw the line. The story is interesting but, in the hands of Hollywood, it holds the faint stink of yet more American revisionism.
Whichever way you cut it, the film really does seem to be suggesting that Americans pulled off the heroics of a people that existed long before the US was even a country. It's all just faintly embarrassing. Im sure that the vast majority of Americans would be very happy to watch characters being played by non-Americans but the money men of Hollywood insist of making an extra 3 dollars by casting the likes of Channing Tatum to play Latin-speaking Italians. It's ridiculous.
Whichever way you cut it, the film really does seem to be suggesting that Americans pulled off the heroics of a people that existed long before the US was even a country. It's all just faintly embarrassing. Im sure that the vast majority of Americans would be very happy to watch characters being played by non-Americans but the money men of Hollywood insist of making an extra 3 dollars by casting the likes of Channing Tatum to play Latin-speaking Italians. It's ridiculous.