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Aish @ The Last Legion: Now Playing at a Theater Near You |
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October 19, 2007 by Satya Adhar  You have seen her sing, you have seen her dance...Now see her fight and that too in a Hollywood style fantasy action-adventure world. Yes, Aishwarya Rai is showing her talent in Hollywood movie The Last Legion. The movie is being screened in Bangkok right now. The Last Legion is a 2007 movie directed by Doug Lefler. It is based on a 2003 Italian novel of the same name written by Valerio Massimo Manfredi. It stars Colin Firth along with Sir Ben Kingsley and Aishwarya Rai, and premiered in Abu Dhabi on April 6, 2007.
Apparently, Aishwarya plays an Indian warrior named Mira and more interestingly her weapon is called Katar.
The movie is set against the fall of Rome and its last emperor, 12 year-old Romulus Augustus. The young Romulus is destined to rule for a day before losing all that he loved: his family, his home, and an empire that once stood for truth and honor. Romulus escapes from being imprisoned on the island-fortress of Carpri. Then he discovers "excaliburnus" the legendary sword of Julius Caesar, and realizes that he must save Rome. Accompanied by his friends and a mysterious envoy from Constantinople, Romulus travels to Britannia in search of the last Roman Legion – the fabled Dragon Legion. He will fight alongside his allies to make his last stand for Rome and take his first steps to become the king who would father a legend.
The movie has received mixed reviews from the critics.
tvguide says " While not in the same league as the visually dazzling EXCALIBUR and saddled with cheap-looking CGI effects, this Anglo-Italian co-production has quite a bit of fun finding a direct path from the fall of Rome to the birth of Arthurian legend (ground previously tread upon by the 2004 Clive Owen epic, KING ARTHUR The avclub review says There are many, many films about Excalibur, the legendary sword of antiquity fortified with an invisible but potent layer of Caesar-y goodness, but only one with Aishwarya Rai as a sexy lady-warrior, a pint-sized, adorable li'l Caesar (Thomas Sangster), and Ben Kingsley running around with grayish-white hair, a staff, and long flowing white robes like a obsessive Gandalf fan at a third-rate comic-book convention. Though it's never wise to underestimate the power or universal appeal of Rai's cleavage and lustrous hair, that's about all that sets the doggedly mediocre The Last Legion apart from every other sword-and-sandal epic about the origins of Camelot. Check out the movie for yourself! Content navigation Previous: Hollywood to join hands with Bollywood against piracy
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