This is my first movie review
I have recently finished watching this movie with a buddy and I thought it was neither good nor bad
It starts out following the story of Marcus Aquila ( played by Channing Tatem of which is a great actor) who is the commander of a squadron of around 100 soldiers(?) and gets attacked by Celtic barbarians
After getting heavily wounded by an enemy chariot, Marcus is sent to a doctor, is forced to resign from his rank and is scheduled for surgery ( which in 100 AD hurt A LOT I'm guessing)
A short while after, Marcus passes by a small stadium and sits down with some buddies to watch a duel between a Celtic slave and another gladiator; after the battle commences, the slave strangely drops his weapons and stands to be beaten.
After a good amount of punches and blows, the slave is on the ground and ready to be judged by the Roman "thumbs rule" for gladiators ( thumbs up lets him live, thumbs down kills him). As expected, most of the crowd votes thumbs down mostly due to the fact that they were disappointed with the lack of fight and wish to see some violence, however Marcus, along with his friends start voting thumbs up which causes the rest of the crowd to agree, thus saving his life.
The slave is then grateful for his life and offers to become Marcus's slave to repay his debt of gratitude and afterwords helps for his operation on his leg.
The next part is very short to explain and is the part I felt was missing.
Afterwards Marcus and his slave, Esca, embark on a journey to find the mighty golden eagle which represents Rome and her glory and find out what happened to his father ( according to movie) in the land past the wall of North Rome which is a desolate area for Romans
Upon arrival to the major Celtic village, they have a small argument regarding Esca's Celtic heritage while one of the Celts was watching, in confusion. Esca, speaking in his native tongue explains that this is simply his slave and that they were arguing.
Esca fits in extremely well with the community and people start to like him. Afterwards, Esca, tells Marcus that he is still with him and still here to help and with his help, they get the golden eagle and escape with a search and destroy party of Celts following them.
After all the fighting and running, they finally arrive at Rome and present it among the senators and Marcus along with Esca is awarded heavily with gratitude.
In conclusion, this movie had a good plot, story, and cool fight scenes and I thought that, in a way, this movie was very similar to The Gladiator ( not because it's set in and around Rome) but it was missing a huge part which made the ending a slight disappointment.
I have recently finished watching this movie with a buddy and I thought it was neither good nor bad
It starts out following the story of Marcus Aquila ( played by Channing Tatem of which is a great actor) who is the commander of a squadron of around 100 soldiers(?) and gets attacked by Celtic barbarians
After getting heavily wounded by an enemy chariot, Marcus is sent to a doctor, is forced to resign from his rank and is scheduled for surgery ( which in 100 AD hurt A LOT I'm guessing)
A short while after, Marcus passes by a small stadium and sits down with some buddies to watch a duel between a Celtic slave and another gladiator; after the battle commences, the slave strangely drops his weapons and stands to be beaten.
After a good amount of punches and blows, the slave is on the ground and ready to be judged by the Roman "thumbs rule" for gladiators ( thumbs up lets him live, thumbs down kills him). As expected, most of the crowd votes thumbs down mostly due to the fact that they were disappointed with the lack of fight and wish to see some violence, however Marcus, along with his friends start voting thumbs up which causes the rest of the crowd to agree, thus saving his life.
The slave is then grateful for his life and offers to become Marcus's slave to repay his debt of gratitude and afterwords helps for his operation on his leg.
The next part is very short to explain and is the part I felt was missing.
Afterwards Marcus and his slave, Esca, embark on a journey to find the mighty golden eagle which represents Rome and her glory and find out what happened to his father ( according to movie) in the land past the wall of North Rome which is a desolate area for Romans
Upon arrival to the major Celtic village, they have a small argument regarding Esca's Celtic heritage while one of the Celts was watching, in confusion. Esca, speaking in his native tongue explains that this is simply his slave and that they were arguing.
Esca fits in extremely well with the community and people start to like him. Afterwards, Esca, tells Marcus that he is still with him and still here to help and with his help, they get the golden eagle and escape with a search and destroy party of Celts following them.
After all the fighting and running, they finally arrive at Rome and present it among the senators and Marcus along with Esca is awarded heavily with gratitude.
In conclusion, this movie had a good plot, story, and cool fight scenes and I thought that, in a way, this movie was very similar to The Gladiator ( not because it's set in and around Rome) but it was missing a huge part which made the ending a slight disappointment.