
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 th... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Chicago ReaderMichael WilmingtonExciting and even moving, this robust epic is filled with action, male bonding, and a terrifying sense of wilderness. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA rip-snorting adventure tale of the sort made before CGI, 3-D and alphabet soup in general took the fun out of moviegoing. |
| Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanAn honest, basic story set forth with brevity, skill, care and intelligence. |
| Time OutKeith UhlichDo you like movies about gladiators? Well, lend me your ears: The Eagle will more than gratify your sword-and-sandal cravings. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe story and setting may be ancient, but under the direction of Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), and with a nicely textured screenplay by Macdonald's Scotland coscreenwriter Jeremy Brock, the vigor is fully modern. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanThe Eagle is full of action and fleet of foot-it's a movie of smoky, lowering battlefields and trippy, space-bending flashbacks, pausing only for admiring location shots of Scotland's wild, craggy vistas. |
| VarietyBrian LowryWhile the movie doesn't wholly succeed, there's enough to like here -- including Channing Tatum's credible performance as a tradition-bound Roman soldier. |
| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallYes, The Eagle is as bad as it sounds but also entertaining, in a "Mystery Science Theater 3000" sort of way that Macdonald didn't intend. |
| The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Eagle is an engaging, if straightforward and one-dimensional. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinThe Eagle is furiously unsettled-thematically, temporally, meteorologically. Wild-eyed, long-haired Brits leap atop the Romans' shields as the soldiers blindly hack away, the bodies so close that you can barely tell the victor from the vanquished. The battles in the fog and rain have a hallucinatory power. |