The Eagle

In Roman-ruled Britain, a young Roman soldier endeavors to honor his father's memory by finding his lost legion's golden emblem (IMDB).

As I have stated before, we are geeks for Medieval. As I have also stated February was a slow movie month and nothing coming out really excited us. This movie looked at least somewhat capable of entertaining us but the lead actor, Channing Tatum has never been a big winner in our book so this movie was placed on the BAD movie list.

We went into this movie expecting a disaster and only witnessed a mild fender bender.

The Eagle	Mr. L	Mrs. C
Story/plot	0	0
Acting	0	0
Special effects	+1	+1
Cinematography	+1	+1
Overall entertainment	0	0
Total:	+2	+2

This was your typical restore family honor story. The protagonist is on a quest to restore his father’s honor by serving in the military and seeking to find the golden emblem that was supposedly lost at his father’s hand. As I said the story wasn’t anything unique or extraordinary but what impressed us was the cinematography and special effects. The movie looked genuine and transported you to early England. You couldn’t help but feel that the Black Plague would be knocking at your door. There were some spectacular wide shots of northern England that really transported you there and increased your involvement in the movie. If not for the acting and overused plot, this would have been an amazing movie. Despite that, this movie still came out on our GOOD list.