Centurion (2010)
6/10
Just to elaborate on the elaboration.
14 February 2011
Warning: Spoilers
First the elaboration, westenicho did some fine historical correction in his review I just want raise one point. The word decimate which features strongly in the blurbs for this movie is, as usual, used wrongly normally I would ignore it but not in this context. Decimate comes from Latin meaning "removal of a tenth", if the ninth had been decimated there would be 2,700 survivors not 7. Decimatio was a Roman punishment for troops/units guilty of cowardice where one in ten was executed.

The film itself was better than I expected with fewer errors in terrain than some others, though the mountains at the start looked more impressive than I was expecting.
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