The Last Legion

[unclehyena.livejournal.com]

Saturday's movie was "The Last Legion", a prequel to the King Arthur stories based on an Italian novel. Most of the characters are Romans, but a significant number of them have Greek names; most the characters with familiar Arthurian names use un-re-translated Italian versions. Yes, it is all a bit flaky, and pretty much cut from whole cloth, but the cast is good, and it is a story about courage and honor and loyalty, and there is a fair amount of decent broadsword combat.

We enjoyed it; it was a decent story decently told.

But Excalibur was NOT the Sword in the Stone. Grrr.

Uncle Hyena