Centurion (2010)

R02/15/2010Adventure, Action, Drama1h 37m
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History is written in blood

Overview

Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Michael Fassbender

    Centurion Quintus Dias

  2. Cast 1

    Olga Kurylenko

    Etain

  3. Cast 1

    David Morrissey

    Bothos

  4. Cast 1

    Liam Cunningham

    Brick

  5. Cast 1

    Dominic West

    General Titus Flavius Virilus

  6. Cast 1

    Imogen Poots

    Arianne

  7. Cast 1

    Ulrich Thomsen

    Gorlacon

  8. Cast 1

    JJ Feild

    Thax

  9. Cast 1

    Noel Clarke

    Macros

According to Wikipedia, Centurion “received mixed reviews and performed poorly at the box office” when it was released, but I wonder how many people picked up on its fascist undertones. The movie is set in Britain during the Roman invasion in 43 AD. Now, unless it’s propaganda or revisionism, the long and short if it is, or should be, that in an invasion the invaders are the bad guys and the invaded the good guys – forget geopolitics; I’m talking about simple storytelling here. But Centurion expects us to identify with the invading forces, a rapport that it slyly, yet deliberately, enc...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$12,000,000.00

Revenue $6,890,432.00

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