I always get this film confused with The Centurion from last year. Centurion was significantly better. I'm not a nitpicky guy with period films, but it was damned distracting here. The horses were saddled in a modern way. The career Roman soldier took what looked to be a Gaulic longsword north of the wall with him. I'll stop, but there's more. The movie didn't even feel period specific at all. Switch the swords to guns and you have a boring Vietnam war film. Just some dudes playing dress up.

Roman ex-centurion vows to restore his family's honour, lost when his father led the ninth legion north of Hadrian's Wall 20 years earlier and never came back. So he goes north along with his celtic slave to find the legion's golden eagle among the inhuman Scots and prove himself one of the few honourable Men in the increasingly sissyfied Rome. Anyone wanting to read it as a slightly rah-rah libertarian metaphor for how some people see the US's past and present will not be told to shut up.

Not nearly as bad as I thought it would be especially considering it stars Channing von Wahlberg Tatum. It is a little slow at times so those wishing for nonstop mindless action will be sorely disappointed.

I liked the beginning very much, but then it all falls apart.

This is both a good and bad film. Obviously channing tatum is average but the whole history behind this film is wrong. I live 2 miles from Hadrians wall so roman history is something I am very familiar with. Firstly, when they go through Hadrians wall, at no point is there scenery like that and secondly, Gaelic did not exist when this film is based upon, it was pictish. Aside from historical points of view, jamie bell is very good in this film and the story is okay, not amazing, not bad!

I watched this but I could not tell you at all what the heck was going on. Jamie Bell was the best thing in it and why on earth are all the Romans American? Rubbish.

a workable action movie in an underused setting, it's fairly disposable, but lives up to expectations. i'm a fan of jamie bell and regrettably channing tatum, but they didn't have too much to work with here.

I was hoping for something along the lines of last year's little-seen sword picture "Centurion" starring Michael Fassbender & Dominic West. That movie was decent enough. This movie couldn't even reach decent. It is pretty boring and the plot never engages. I'm not a huge Channing Tatum fan, but nothing abut his performance irritated me. It was just boring enough to fit in with the rest of the film.

What's with all the bad ratings? I didn't think this movie was terrible. It was certainly better than Brave Heart, where the Mayans crucified Jesus during the Revolutionary War.

There seemed no sense to the cinematography, and I'm left with the feeling that nothing really happened; not enough plot for a movie like this.

Average film and a main character is lame. He don't fit to this kind of film. It's like send cripple to a marathon and carry him all the way.

I had a decent time for 40 minutes and a terrible time for the other 80. Even when The Eagle works, it still only does so marginally. Most of the time, though, it's such a snoozefest that it's difficult to recommend to anyone. Channing Tatum can't carry this film, the supporting actors are underutilized, the action scenes are boring and often incomprehensible, and the plot takes far too long to get going. This just isn't a good film.

Seems sort of drab when compared with last year's Centurion, but it's nice to see Tatum trying.

I enjoyed this a lot. Channing Tatum does a decent job. Jamie Bell does a better one (natch). Proper boys own adventure. One personal wish is to see a barbarian horde taken on in a proper Roman style, shield wall steady, short swords in motion. But that's just me.

I love the setting and the acting wasnt all that bad either plus there was a lot of fighting which is always good. But the story was very dull and nothing really happened.. just the things you were expecting: Collect the eagle equals victory... Zzzzz..

Whats up with the poor ratings? This was a great movie! best in a long time!

Razaca wrecz oszczednosc na obsadzie glownych rol. Kto to w ogole jest Channing Tatum? Jego gra (tfu - usilowanie gry) wprowadzala mnie w stan ogromnej zgryzoty. Dobry pomysl, dobre zdjecia, nie ta obsada....

Not very entertaining. Predictable and, even worse, bland. Even if you're into Roman flicks, you probably will want to head for the exit right after the setup. It's just b.s. and ridiculous forest men from there on in.

Pro: the beautiful Scottish and Hungarian landscapes. Con: virtually everything else. Bad story, uninspired acting... points for the nice fortress. All in all: bad, but not horrible.

Esca he looks like two sticks you can eat with them or a very fast human being not a warrior at all, is a symbol worth all this killing or is it just make movies and no opinion about right or wrong.

The cinematogaphy and Bell are top notch, but the cheesy dialogue and truly horrible performance by Channing Tatum (how on earth does he keep getting work?) drag it down to the point of boredom.

good movie good cast good plot 10 out of 10

I enjoyed this movie a lot more than I thought I would. Channing Tatum is as bad as you would think yet this does not ruin the film. I enjoyed the action sequences and this film has some great visuals. Check it out if you enjoy watching a Roman Legion fight off a barbarian horde.

I have a few gripes. The ending of the movie didn't give me what I was looking for (which is more my fault than the movie's fault, I accept that); I felt that everything about the ending fell together a little too easily. I also didn't like Donald Sutherland as a Roman. I love Donald Sutherland, but, he was a Roman speaking with a Boston accent. Kinda killed the aesthetic to me. AND, I wish Hollywood would stop filming these large-scale battle scenes so up-close. BUT, it was a solid movie.

"A proudly old-fashioned adventure about brotherhood that happens to speak to our current moment of moral uncertainty without ever drawing specious analogies between the political reality of its characters' lives and ours." - Ed Gonzalez

You know, going against what I expected when going in, I thoroughly enjoyed this. I thought it had a great visual sense, and even Mumbles Tatum did a good job. Some parts were by the book but that's not a bad thing if done well, and for the most part it is. I was interested the whole way through. Some of the action scenes were inspired but sometimes I wish these movies wouldn't film everything so zoomed in... zoom out once in a while and let the action breathe.

I apparently liked this more than most. It's more than just a story, it's a fascinating original epic adventure, exquisitely filmed (except for a couple of battle sequences) in Scotland. The drama of the centurion and slave being held together by honor plays well throughout the story. Definitely a guy flick (there's no women with speaking parts). Channing Tatum has been criticized for his flat performance; I think that's an unfair overstatement since he fit the role for which he was cast.

This film is sort of King Arthur with a touch of Gladiator and Lord of the Rings. The scenes and scenery were rich with solid cinematography, great sets, and costumes. The film had a strong sense of historical responsibility right down to the depiction of combat. It suffered from a mid-film slump and was a little drawn out, but still a very strong film. Not King Arthur or Gladiator, but definitely recommendable.

"Tron 2" was a sword and sandals picture in disguise, and "The Eagle" is a buddy cop movie in disguise.

A really pleasant surprise.

A swords and sandals buddy-road-movie with buffed up Tatum and Bell on one side vs. the painted evil warriors, who has taken the eagle and left Rome somewhat impotent, on the other... What works is the great rural scenery of northern britain, but the story is simple and full of indifferent moments and bad lines. Never the less it's quite entertaining and I'm a sucker for epic movies, so all in all it's a very little recommendation for team Tatum and Bell!

what the fuck is wrong with everybody? this is better malick-lite than every david gordon green combined

I enjoyed it more than I expected from the reviews I read. Still not a fan of Channing Tatum, but I enjoyed the way the relationship between his and Jamie Bell's characters evolved and found the cinematography appealing. Also, Mark Strong keeps showing up in stuff I had no idea he was in; first The Way Back and now this. Mark Strong just don't stop workin'!

Nothing about this film makes sense, what are they Buddy Cops? Also what the hell was with the ending? Kept expecting them to slap high fives and rush to board their F-16's, then fly into the sunset with Marcus talking about how his newly freed slave buddy is always going to be his F***ing Wingman.

Meh. While I appreciate the effort put into displaying the beautiful, savage Roman-era Britain and the order and the discipline of the Roman army (I actually felt some shivers when the Romans formed the Testudo), the battles are messy and unauthentic, the main characters shallow and the story full of holes. Too bad, as the scenery, props and equipment was top knotch.

'Not sure if serious' about this one. If it is 'serious', then it's severe insult to my intellect(or anyone's else with common sense), since so stupid tactics on both sides I haven't seen in my life. When 4 times more Brits than Romans were 'being pushed' looked like they just walking backwards. And when they surrounded them, they just leaned on Roman shields. And then retreated. If is not 'serious', why can't M.Aquila just kill everybody, since he's best image of 'honorable Roman soldier'?

Not as bad as I expected, after reading all the terrible reviews, but far too contrived to take it seriously. "The Romans killed Britain's men and raped their women...but one has honor, so all's good. Oh and look, the evil blue boogy man killed that kid, so all Britons must be savages!"

Evoking the forgotten meanings of action-adventure films (pre-Tarantino) is enough to make The Eagle a distinctive, if minor, film.