I'm not Spartacus...

Have just been to see The Last Legion. Can't say I was wonderfully impressed, but as I'm sure it was amazingly well researched, here's what I've learned about the Roman Empire....
1. The Romans were the good guys (naturally) and were all actually English
(This fact is corroborated by the great TV series 'Rome')
2. They were defeated by the Goths, who were actually Scottish
3. Gandhi was Merlin (Ben Kingsley) and Merlin was Welsh and hung out with the Romans
4. Mr Darcy was actually a Roman centrion (Collin Firth)
5. Excalibur was actually Julius Caeser's Sword
6. Seriously, Merlin was Welsh...

Not a great film, but it passed the time and I wasn't bored. Was made a good deal better by Aishwarya Rai, a huge Bollywood actress, playing an Indian assassin. OK, so she is very very cute, but the tense flirtatious relationship she has with Collin Firth is great, at times has the same sulky, unspoken passion of Pride and Prejudice...