
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, ...
Continue Reading