(2011, Kevin MacDonald)
First I want to openly condemn Netflix for being the slaves of the media cartels. Renting "rental" movies (sans special features) is against American freedom! Having said that I watched the Eagle with Channing Tatum as Roman Centurion Marcus Aquila and Jamie Bell as his Briton slave Eska as they journey north of Hadrian's Wall to restore honor to the Aquila name by recovering a gold eagle standard lost by Aquila's father. This film has some nice epic backdrops, good use of dialects (wrong dialects of course but dialects at least!), and some good music. Appearances by Mark Strong and Donald Sutherland don't hurt either. Tahar Rahim is good as the bad guy. This is a fairly decent representation of 1st Century A.D. Roman life in the hinterlands, although as with all things Hollywood, a scholar will find plenty to cry about. Not bad. Apparently loosely based on some novel or other.(5/7)
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