Dynamic, forceful, powerful, he brings a confident life-threatening urgency and emotion to the performance that keeps you on the edge of your seat, making you hold your breath in fear for Dais. Who will survive? Who will avenge?įor most of you, your first introduction to Michael Fassbender was probably in “Brothers in Arms” or “Inglorious Bastards.” Seems that being a man in uniform suits Fassbender and here as Centurion Quintus Dais, he never looked better. Realizing they must find a way south to return to other Legions, Centurion Dais must first lead his rag tag band of warriors into the northernmost regions of the Inverness and backtrack, hoping against hope to elude the Picts who are hot on their trail with huntress Etain in the lead.
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Determined to free Virilius, Dais and company launch a rescue mission, a mission that backfires, sending the Centurions on a flight for their lives. The resulting carnage unfathomable.īut surviving this slaughter is Centurion Quintus Dais and a few other lone soldiers – some a bit braver than others – and a captured General. With madness in their eyes and blood in their hearts, the Picts slice, dice, pierce, decapitate in hand to hand combat and on horseback. Fireballs roll from the forest, breaking the line, allowing for Picts to flood in. Using precision military tactics, the Legion tries to hold its line, but is over-powered by the elements of surprise, tact, cunning, superior geographic position and the shear brutality of the Picts.
Someone has betrayed the Empire! Emerging from the darkness and the wooded region like thieves in the night, the Picts are relentless in their slaughter of the Romans. Although Pict, she seeks to serve Rome and has done so in the past.Īs the Legion marches toward the Pict village intent on executing one of their patented surprise attacks, the tables turn when the Picts attack the Romans. Deemed as nothing but savages, Virilius sees this as a relatively easy battle, especially when he is given Etain, a Pict huntress with tracking skills of a wolf. Fresh off a strong of victories, Virilius and his men are ready to finish conquering the world and go head to head with the Picts. This is the final foothold, the crowing glory for Rome should he succeed in his mission. General Virilius has the daunting task of leading the 9 th Legion deep into the north, exterminating and eliminating anything and anyone that tries to stop them. Oh yeah, and a very buff Michael Fassbender and Dominic West. Bloodletting and some of the finest battle sequences you will ever see on film. Comminus certamen (grab those Latin dictionaries boys & girls). Although no written recordation, stories have long been told about what happened to the 9 th Legion when it suddenly “disappeared” after venturing north into the Caledonian mountains in its efforts to gain a stronghold over the Picts.įor writer/director Neil Marshall, this is the stuff that dreams are made of – especially when growing up at Hadrian’s Wall, and having a lifetime to play “war” in his mind, wondering “what if” the Picts ambushed the Legion and one lone man survived.
Equally as brave and brutal as the Romans, they were outside the domain of Rome and intended to stay that way, something that displeased the Empire. During this time there were also people known as the Picts who lived above Hadrian’s wall in Northern Britain in what is now Scotland. But the 9 th Legion “fell off the map” in the 1 st Century AD after beginning to suffer some staggering battle losses…losses which never sat well in Rome. Although Caesar disbanded the Legion after his final victory during an African campaign in 46 BC, after his death, Octavian recalled the veterans and they once again took their place as a vital force in Rome’s conquest of the world, fighting in Macedonia, Actium, Spain, Germany and ultimately Britain. Raised in 65 BC in Spain, Julius Caesar first commanded the Legion in 61BC, bringing them to Gaul in several years later when they were a commanding presence during the Gallic Wars. A true fighting machine with cunning and strength.
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