DirkUSA

Thanks, the DVR is set!

thelwig14

Wasn't bad..but Marshall needs to get over this girl in an action role thing. As a viewer, I just don't feel threatened by the hot Bond model without a tongue. Ripley is the only female character playing tough that never came off goofy.

RocShemp

I actually thought Kurylenko was well used as what can only be described as vengeance incarnate.

I actually thought the film got better after the first big battle which was pretty poor. Also, the night ambush started with promise (with those big fireballs) but then became rather boring despite all the bloodshed. My only other gripe was that Dominic West was underused.

It's nowhere near as good as The Descent but is leagues better than the horrid Doomsday.

Sessa17

Really? That is weird. Linda Hamilton wasn't goofy at all in T2, she was just as good as Ripley. Uma pulled off the Bride pretty damn well. There are tons, your expectections must be ridiculous.

RocShemp

+1

thelwig14

Not ridiculous, realistic. I do agree and stand corrected, Hamilton pulled it off because it was mainly gun related and not physical. Both Ripley and Sarah Connor were kept in the realm of realisim. Uma didn't...it was ridiculous watching her overwhelm men with physical dominance.

RocShemp

She was using a sword. A really sharp sword. Any man would be physically dominated if the woman is quick enough.

thelwig14

Not in every scene...it doesn't matter. I prefer action movies to be grounded in reality when it comes to women...just like I wouldn't want to watch Dustin Hoffman beat up on Jason Statham...if no reality could that ever exist.

RocShemp

The only times she didn't use a sword against a man was when Pai Mei kicked her ass and when she bludgeoned Buck. Although with the latter she ambushed him to be able to do that. You seriously need to rewatch the movie.

The only other special case was Bill but she didn't use physical strength against him either.

GoldenJCJ

A more realistic ending would have been for Bill to take FOUR steps and then beat the shit out of Uma. Otherwise completely unbelievable.

Dr. DVD

She had a Hattori Hanzo sword, that gave her a pretty big advantage, I will admit.

I guess what you're saying is that in your action movies you want the women be there to build the male hero's ego, get abducted by the bad guy, and be their booty supply when the time arrives.

Sessa17

So you can't enjoy any movie that has a woman kicking ass? That is just sad. And to only enjoy action movies that have realism, you must not see many films. You must have hated Kick-Ass which is a shame because its one of the best films of the year.

RocShemp

It's a shame he can't enjoy something like this:

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And the blooper reel at the end of the movie showed that she could (and did) really hurt those guys.

Solid Snake

You know....getting your ass kicked can come from the ridiculous looking to the most gritty of things...

I wouldn't say physcial dominance...in martial arts...strength isn't a massive factor in comparison to it's union w/ speed and agility.

That's cuz Hoffman and Statham lived in a different world of violence.

Giles

Doomsday may have been a clusterfuck but at least it had energy, but at times during Centurion the pacing skreetched to nearly an abrupt halt, a good portion of the middle of the movie it got downright dull. The chase, kill, chase, dialogue bit, chase got really repetitive and tiresome. It also didn't help that the movie didn't seem to have ANY surround sound to make the film aurally exciting, Expendables soundmix made my ears nearly bleed and Machette kicked butt too, here though, it was so restrained - should have held out til the bluray.

Maxflier

My thoughts as well. It was ok, but a letdown overall.
And I love Olga, but she just wasn't convincing as the badass her character was made out to be.

tylergfoster

I feel like I'm the only one who really, really enjoyed this movie. Loved how the scope of action ramped down instead of the traditional up, with the final "epic" battle occurring between five or six people. Bought it on Blu-Ray, looking forward to watching it again.

godzilla rules

This is one of the worst movies of 2010 and yet another reason why Marshall is one of the worst directors working today. I was bored out of my mind for the majority of the movie The only scenes that caught my attention were the action scenes, but these scenes are so poorly thought out and shot that they become boring and confusing. The fact that the movie was being marketed as "bloodier than Gladiator" is really sad. Of course it is going to be bloodier than a movie that came out ten years ago. We have had many movies come and go like this and each one has been bloodier than the last. That is not a good marketing approach.

Marketing aside, this is a shitty movie. I hated every inch of it. Marshall shows with every movie that he has no talent whatsoever. Sure he can point the camera at what he wants and film it, but that is the extent of his talent.

I give the movie 1/2 a star or a D-

TheySentYou

no talent? psssh.

RocShemp

I liked it for the same reasons. In fact, the first "epic" battle was a total letdown to me. Once the scale of the film became more "intimate" is when the film really got good.

BJacks

Watched the Blu-ray the other day and thought it was ok. I didn't really understand how the Picts were able to completely overwhelm the Roman legion, even with the ambush and element of surprise. In an earlier shot it showed the legion stretching like miles. There were enough Picts to destroy ALL of them? The movie didn't represent that at all. It was even weirder because when they showed the Pict camp it was small and barely used.

I realize for budgetary reasons they were probably limited in showing the scope of the combat and size of the forces, but still, it bothered me.

That said, I do think Neil Marshall is one of the most interesting filmmakers working today. Good or bad, his projects always show originality and ambition.

RichC2

I loved The Descent but have been cool on his other movies, though Doomsday had its fair share of fun moments.

Numanoid

Watched this on Netflix streaming (HD) just now. Great cinematography and direction. Convincing, realistic acting. Wall-to-wall action. Not a bad thing to say about the movie, in fact, except that it was too short.

And it's clear that Marshall was paying homage to my favorite movie of all time, Excalibur, throughout. There were several cues in the movie that recalled Excalibur, and one scene was an almost shot-for-shot tribute. I give it an A-.

Traxan

Just watched it on Blu-ray. Boy that was a messy movie. Threw a few curve balls (the witch) and there were a few people I was just dying to see get their but yeah, it was no 'Braveheart.' The end was corny.

What was a nice change of pace was this movie has no clear good guys/bad guys lines. No one is particularly noble, save maybe Dias only in his attempt to get the men to safety.

PopcornTreeCt

I just finished watching this film. I'm a sucker for Roman period films so I thought it was pretty good. I enjoyed seeing Fassbender, I think he has leading man material. Kurylenko was great. I'm one of the first to pounce on the old "women can't beat up guys" argument but I thought in this film it was pretty believable. She only beat the one guy cause he was severely wounded.

Solid movie.