Centurion (2010)

Editor's Note A Roman soldier (Michael Fassbender) leads a small band of troops on a mission to rescue a key Roman general after becoming trapped in the territory of their sworn enemies in this period action-adventure film from director Neil Marshall (THE DESCENT, DOOMSDAY). The year is A.D. 117. Despite the growing strength of the Roman Empire, a fierce tribe known as the Picts has prevented Hadrian's armies from conquering northern Britain. The Picts offer a devastating display of their guerilla power when they raid a Roman frontier fort, and Quintus just barely manages to escape with his life. Thirsting for revenge, Quintus joins General Virilus' Ninth Legion as the squadron begins traveling north on a mission to find and kill Gorlacon, the leader of the Picts. That mission is complicated when the Ninth Legion is ambushed and General Virilus is captured, leaving his men stranded behind enemy lines. Now, as the Quintus and the surviving members of the Ninth Legion are hunted from the shadows, they prepare to make one last, desperate bid to save General Virilus and reach the Roman frontier before being captured or killed by the Picts.

	David Morrissey
	Dominic West
	Michael Fassbender
	Olga Kurylenko
	JJ Feild
	Noel Clarke
	Axelle Carolyn
	Lee Ross - Co-Star
	Ryan Atkinson - Co-Star
	Simon Chadwick - Co-Star
	Jake Maskall - Co-Star
	Dylan Brown - Co-Star
	Sam McCurdy - Director of Photography
	Matthew Collinge - Sound
	Riz Ahmed - Co-Star
	Imogen Poots - Co-Star
	Dermot Keaney - Co-Star
	Dave Legeno - Co-Star
	Dhaffer L'Abidine - Co-Star
	Eoin Macken - Co-Star
	Dimitri Leonidas - Co-Star
	Michael Carter - Co-Star
	Tom Mannion - Co-Star
	Peter Guinness - Co-Star
	Ulrich Thomsen - Co-Star
	Rachael Stirling - Co-Star
	Andreas Wisniewski - Co-Star
	Paul Freeman - Co-Star
	Liam Cunningham - Co-Star
	Neil Marshall - Screenwriter
	Ilan Eshkeri - Composer
	Phil Booth - Assistant Director
	Cass Marks - Production Manager/UPM
	Polly Duval - Post-Production Supervisor
	Paul Hyett - Special Makeup Effects
	Tahira Herold - Hairstylist
	Tahira Herold - Makeup
	Neil Marshall - Director

Empire
3 stars out of 5 -- "The motley legionnaires each get their moment in the sun, and Fassbender is dependably stoic and heroic." 09/01/2010

Chicago Sun-Times
"Writer-director Neil Marshall shoots his head-to-head combat violence in jittery Strobo-Vision....The eruptions of red serves as welcome compositional elements..." 08/25/2010

Los Angeles Times
"[A] fast-moving, epic-on-a-shoestring tale of one Roman soldier's fight that is by turns heroic, fearsome, funny, fateful and, oh, so brutal, with swords hacking off heads at every turn." 08/27/2010

Entertainment Weekly
"[W]hen it comes to crunchy impalings and messy arterial geysers, Marshall's a maestro." -- Grade: B 09/03/2010

Movieline
"A massive production with some stunning visuals....CENTURION is part heroic mission film, part curious wartime picaresque." 08/26/2010