While not 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 (ground previously tread upon by the 2004 Clive Owen epic, KING ARTHUR). Adapted from a 2002 novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi and unhampered by historical accuracy, the story entertainingly blends Gibbon into Malory to tell the tale how the magical Roman sword came to be embedded in a stone in far off Britain.
Rome, 470 A.D. Once ruler of all Europe, a sizeable chunk of Asia and the periphery of Africa, the Roman Empir...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
110 mins