Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.
Practical Effects
Marshall's visceral gore—real squibs, real mud, zero CGI polish.
Acting
Fassbender's pre-fame intensity; Kurylenko's feral mute performance.
Direction
Marshall channels 'Predator' in Caledonia—tight, nasty, unrelenting.
Director
Neil Marshall
Michael Fassbender
Centurion Quintus Dias
Olga Kurylenko
Etain
David Morrissey
Bothos
Liam Cunningham
Brick
Dominic West
General Titus Flavius Virilus
Imogen Poots
Arianne
Ulrich Thomsen
Gorlacon
JJ Feild
Thax
Noel Clarke
Macros
Riz Ahmed
Tarak
Dimitri Leonidas
Leonidas
Paul Freeman
Governor Julius Agricola
Dave Legeno
Vortix
Axelle Carolyn
Aeron
Andreas Wisniewski
Commander Gratus
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Neil Marshall shot this back-to-back with 'Doomsday'—explains the shared practical-effects obsession and general chaos.
The 'Ninth Legion mystery' has obsessed historians for centuries; Marshall chose the massacre theory over the gradual dissolution theory because blood sells.
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