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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Lackluster and decidedly old-fashioned (in the worst way).
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What are critics saying?
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ReelViews by James Berardinelli
When a movie wants to be sold as a spectacle, it had better deliver something more spectacular than this.
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Seriously hampered by glaring inconsistencies of tone and intent, and often feels like a series of highlights carved out of a much longer epic.
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Los Angeles Times by John Anderson
Not as bad as it sounds nor as good as it might have been.
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While not exactly in the same league as the visually dazzling "Excalibur" and saddled with cheap looking CGI effects, this Anglo-Italian co-production has quite a bit of fun finding a direct path from the fall of Rome to the birth of Arthurian legend.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey
Distinctly humdrum, The Last Legion, a boy's adventure story that seems to have been dragged out of the vaults of some early-sixties TV series.
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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Every once in a while, though, Firth's eyebrow hints, Can you believe I'm wearing this dorky leather breastplate?
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Though it's never wise to underestimate the power or universal appeal of Rai's cleavage and lustrous hair, that's about all that sets the doggedly mediocre The Last Legion apart from every other sword-and-sandal epic about the origins of Camelot.
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The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger
This might have made a good children’s film.
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The film is nothing to be ashamed of (especially if you're Kingsley). But it's as if everybody involved knows what the deal is.