Brace yourselves... LAST LEGION (late Roman film)

[Roy]

I just saw this movie.
Really bad plot, and the equipment was too bad to describe


*Spoilers, select the white text below to read*






I did, however, learn a lot of things about the late Roman empire
- Late Roman armour was made nearly exclusively from un-hardened leather, with the occasional officer wearing a leather musculata.
- Merlin was Romulus Augustus' teacher hock:
- Romulus Augustus was the father of king Arthur hock:

I think the only thing I noticed in the whole movie that was historically correct is that Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was deposed by Odoacer. Oh, and they got his father's name right too (Flavius Orestes).
Everything else...

The movie is set in 460AD.
In that year, Africa was still under Roman control, Romulus Augustus became emperor, and the Goths sacked Rome, according to the movie of course. :roll:
The emperor is constantly adressed as caesar, instead of augustus.
It's mentioned that Tiberius was the last emperor of Julius Caesar's bloodline...

Then they get to Britannia...
First thing that catched my eye was a medieval castle...
During the last battle, the Ninth Legion, equipped as a late 1st century legion with auxilliary archers, appeared.
Besides the lack of pila, and the fact that the legion consisted of 3 cohorts at most, it looked rather good when you still could only see them from the distance. When they were attacked by archers they even formed a really spectacular looking testudo (and I really mean that ) For a while I got my hopes up.
Then, when they came closer, I saw it...
Leather segmentata and helmets hock: hundreds of them hock:
The usual chaotic Hollywood battle followed.

After the battle, it is made clear that Excalibur was Julius Caesar's sword, that Merlin was Romulus Augustus' teacher, and that Romulus Augustus was the father of king Arthur.
The End.