Chilligavva

Take a well known legend such as Excalibur, travel backwards in time instead of forward, throw in some human elements such as A dedicated General [Colin Firth], an assassin like lady warrior [Aishwarya Rai], A Wizard preceptor [Ben Kingsley] a little boy as the protagonist, and mix it up in a story blanket of a quest and voila, you have the Last Legion.

I first saw the trailer on television a couple of days back. It was a 30 sec spot, and I suddenly noticed Aishwarya Rai’s face. (On an aside, her cousin Rashmi Rai had taught briefly in my undergraduation college, in Mangalore. She happens to be a little shorter than Ash herself, but the resemblance is striking.) What still makes me think twice about seeing the movie is Ash’s lack of acting skills.. [Is she wooden or what?] But the pull is Ben and Colin of course..

Now I happen to be totally glamour stuck and movie mad, so I was intrigued. I quickly looked up the movie site http://www.lastlegion-movie.com/ and played the trailer. It was interesting, and informative. I shall review the movie after I see it.

What pissed me off though was… click on any link [Colin Firth OR Ben Kingsley OR Aishwarya Rai ] and it goes to the same link aka -> Play Trailer. When will the web masters get it right or is it a ploy? Looks like the movie has quite some economical production values…

I saw a lot of echoes of earlier movies in the trailer…

• Sound used for turning of the navigation wheels [Master and Commander, Pirates of the Carribbean?]
• Lord of the rings, Star Wars [Child Protagonists, and Wizard like advisors (The Maha Gurus)]
• War scenes [300, Lord Of the Rings-Return Of the King ?]

P.S. If you want to know about the movie right now go to canada.com and read a detailed review.