The Eagle

Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell star in the screen adaptation of Rosemary Sutcliff’s 1954 novel, The Eagle of the Ninth. This is a tale of courage and honour as a young Roman soldier and his slave go on a quest to discover the fate of the Roman Ninth Legion, which disappeared in the wild’s of Scotland, and retrieve their golden emblem. Directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), the film relies on actual locations as opposed to computer-generated imagery. “So much does it evoke the energy of traditional sword-and-shield movies that I had to bring the term ‘rip-snorting’ out of retirement; it’s rarely needed in this era of sleek technology,” commented critic Roger Ebert. A strength of this film is the interesting dynamic that forms between master and slave.
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