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He Came, He Saw, He Wimped Out

“The Last Legion,” a sword-and-sandal spectacle from those epic-loving De Laurentiises, invokes a lot of better movies on its circuitous trip from the Roman empire to the Arthurian legend, but it doesn’t do the one bit of borrowing that could have made this journey enjoyable.
The film, in which a handful of loyal warriors try to protect a youngster who is the last Roman emperor, has beloved images and gimmicks that suggest “Star Wars,”“Raiders of the Lost Ark,”“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” even “Planet of the Apes. [...]

di Neil Genzlinger, articolo completo (1846 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 20 Agosto 2007