Marshall’s low-budget preoccupation with splattering blood and limb-chopping carnage doesn’t help matters—though it will please the same audiences that loved Zack Snyder’s 300.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 9, 2023

The running voice-over throughout the film felt unnecessary – whether as Dias’ interior monologue, or even as a griot of sorts. It served no instructive purpose.

| Sep 13, 2022

It ain't art - although some of it's very pretty to look at - but it is entertainment.

| Jul 6, 2021

It makes it all look like a rather fun - if easy - game. But I think I'll wait for the console to play it on.

| Original Score: 3/10 | May 19, 2021

Centurion offers a somewhat believable theory as to what happened to the 9th Legion, or if not believable, then at least entertaining.

| Apr 7, 2020

It's a manhunt film which is not bad in itself, but the whole setting promises so much more than that and in the end the film never truly delivers.

| Jan 15, 2020

Riveting. Pulsating. An action-packed Roman thrill ride from start to finish.

| Nov 7, 2019

Quickly establishes itself as refreshingly superior to the standard, run-of-the-mill "swords and sandals epic."

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2018

Centurion follows the Roman army's infamous Ninth Legion as it moves forward from Hadrian's wall into Scotland to destroy the Picts, a violent and barbarous race that plagued the Romans throughout their time in Britain.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2018

It's clear almost immediately that Centurion's biggest assets are its various performances and visceral, violent sensibilities...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 20, 2018

... an entertaining film, for adults who are not intimidated by rivers of blood. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2018

Centruion is an exciting and intense action/adventure film with fantastic fight scenes and strong acting.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 9, 2013

Michael Fassbender can carry a movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

With a raucous, gruesome tone, this Roman-era British action movie takes us back in time in such a vivid way that we often feel a bit queasy while watching. If the story were stronger, we'd be glued to the screen.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 10, 2011

The sight of a technologically superior occupying force coming a cropper in hostile foreign territory inescapably brings modern Afghanistan to mind.

| Mar 10, 2011

Auteur cinema of a very narrow stripe, this personalizes a familiar genre to advance a singularly pessimistic view of humanity.

| Jan 3, 2011

Director Neil Marshall thrills yet again setting forth his own vision of the gladiator epic that pays tribute to the classic tropes of the sub-genre, but is concurrently a revenge film and journey in to darkness...

| Dec 7, 2010

Features a commitment to craft that helps overcome issues of storytelling by providing a visceral, violent experience designed to get you in your gut and bones more than in your heart or head.

| Sep 17, 2010

It's a cat and mouse game where we are stuck rooting for the cat even though it killed and raped thousands of mice.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 12, 2010

If I believed in the concept of "guilty pleasures," I'd classify Centurion as one, but I think I maybe just kind of enjoyed it.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 10, 2010