KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Jason Shepherd I would hardly say this is the "worst film ever made". Grow up. This is far, FAR from the worst film ever made. People are off their heads. It's a fairly decent, low budget indie with a nice message. At least it was a unique story! There is far much more garbage out there. We see Hollywood churning out these horribly made, poorly written horror films, sequels, remakes - all awfully made with an AWFUL amount of money. The reviews this movie have had are scathing, or awesome, there doesn't seem to be a happy middle ground. Which is exactly where this film lies. In the middle ground. It's not great. It's not terrible, it's fine.

paul-158-824717 An intelligently written and produced movie LONG overdue. I watched the film not knowing what to expect because I'd heard the kerfuffle about it being completely different to the trailer. WHY LIONSGATE TRIED TO MASK THE ACTUAL STORY WITH THAT STRANGE TRAILER IS BEYOND ME ! So I took a chance in the hope that what I'd heard about it being a good movie would carry some truth because I can't stomach another battle scene with 20 billion CGI soldiers (yawn yawn) and an invincible lead actor rescuing his bit on the side (or in this case on a wheel) and sure enough, my hunch was right. This is a thinking person's movie, and the producers got it bang on with what violence was portrayed involving Barbarians and Romans who had invaded their lands. If you want lots of ARRGH, OWCHES, BLOOD, and a couple of "OH MY GOD'S, with little thought for content, then this movie is NOT for you. If you savour the English language and want to hear it masterfully spoken, then who better than Peter O'Toole and Edward Fox. They really are out there, however, the surprise in this movie is Romanian actress Nicole Keniheart ( Saint Katherine), who takes the language to another level. Grab this DVD and watch it twice, because Keniheart (although with a seductive foreign accent) speaks with a delicate voice but with scarily prophetic dialogue, to say she is beautiful is an understatement. I found myself going to bed with a somewhat guilty conscience about my own life. The producers have mastered the art of sound production to perfection, along with a great music score. Downside is NOT LONG ENOUGH. Upside is PERFORMANCE and UNIQUENESS. Oh, I now know where the Catherine Wheel comes from.

Shaun Darcy I am a fan of historical fact based drama films. Coming across Katherine of Alexandria and discovering Edward Fox and Peter O'Toole were amongst it's the cast, I was very eager to watch it.I wasted 108 minutes of my life! Poor (at best) acting and directing, "history" rewritten by the film studio and a general wondering if the whole movie was shot using cheap camcorders.On the plus side, now I have seen it maybe I am able to steer others away from it. Then maybe my 108 minutes would not seem so futile.1/10 because IMDb won't let me rate at 0. I will have to watch Lawrence of Arabia now to remind me how great Peter O'Toole was.

christiank7 If we are to make a comment about this film it will certainly help if we compare it to a similar one, namely "Agora" Hypatia of Alexandria which was a fantastic epic and extremely well crafted which I can not say for this DECLINE in English cinema. What were the producers thinking when they gave the go-ahead for this over acted and under-scripted sprawling and incoherent diatribe? It is astonishing how low a quality of acting this film contained and that includes the late O'Toole. Sorry pal, it was not your finest hour but I do not blame you for this because the director must accept full responsibility for allowing daily rushes like this to be regarded as "IN THE CAN". Absolutely amateurish and low quality. As to the theme and plot of this tired film. If we take another comparison and this time of a writer named Garry Jennings who wrote a giant of a novel about this same period we see what serious research brings against the off the cuff thinking used by these scriptwriters. It almost made me feel like a sorry excuse for the actions of the lowly Wall Street morons under the banner of being the 99 percent people. PATHETIC! The only redeeming aspect of this film was that due to its scope we actually got a feeling for the decline. OK Great to see something actually worked and that was why I gave it 3 points but really I am being seriously generous.