CHANNING Tatum and former Billy Elliot star Jamie Bell team up in The Eagle, the tale of the pair’s quest to recover the lost emblem of a Roman legion.
Film: The Eagle
Rating: 12A
Duration: 114 mins
Genre: Action
Starring: Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland, Tahar Rahim, Mark Strong, Denis O’Hare
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Released: March 25
In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (Tatum) arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth.
Accompanied only by his British slave Esca (Bell), Marcus sets out across Hadrian’s Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia - to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father’s memory, and retrieve the lost legion’s golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth.
Rating: 7.5/10
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