ROME WASN’T BUILT IN A DAY, BUT I THINK THIS FILM WAS…
Director Kevin Macdonald has directed a couple of really good films with ‘The Last King of Scotland’ and ‘Touching the Void’, so an epic Roman battle flick isn’t out of his reach. The choice of Channing Tatum to star is like blind-folding a heart surgeon, BIG MISTAKE. So when entering ‘The Eagle’ I didn’t know what to expect.
We are in Britain, circa 120AD, and Rome is conquering every parcel of land they can. One of Caesar’s legions, the ninth led by Centurion Flavius Aquila, disappeared while traveling north into the highland of Caledonia. The entire legion... The Eagle- Karl Sides (the Flick Fanatic.com)
ROME WASN’T BUILT IN A DAY, BUT I THINK THIS FILM WAS…
Director Kevin Macdonald has directed a couple of really good films with ‘The Last King of Scotland’ and ‘Touching the Void’, so an epic Roman battle flick isn’t out of his reach. The choice of Channing Tatum to star is like blind-folding a heart surgeon, BIG MISTAKE. So when entering ‘The Eagle’ I didn’t know what to expect.
We are in Britain, circa 120AD, and Rome is conquering every parcel of land they can. One of Caesar’s legions, the ninth led by Centurion Flavius Aquila, disappeared while traveling north into the highland of Caledonia. The entire legion...
We don’t have illegitimate sons or weeping daughters, only a few witches and not a line that is memorable or poetic, but we have broadswords, spears, lots of hand held devices that make effective killing machines, but were later replaced by telephones and game boys. With almost all the globe already at some sort of war, we drop back to 140 A.D. and pit the Romans against the Scots.
And while it’s a good time of the year to see real eagles along the Mississippi River, “The Eagle” is a dumb movie and the eagle is a symbol of a Roman legion that went north of Hadrian’s Wall in 120 and vanished, every man...
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