Friday, March 11, 2011

The Eagle


CAST: Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland, Dakin Matthews; DIRECTOR: Kevin Macdonald; SCREENWRITER: Jeremy Brock; PRODUCER: Duncan Kenworthy; EDITOR: MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Atli Orvarsson; CINEMATOGRAPHER: Anthony Dod Mantle; GENRE: Drama, Action, Adventure; DISTRIBUTOR: Focus Features; LOCATION: Scotland; RUNNING TIME: 114 minutes


Technical Assessment: 3.5
Moral Assessment: 3
CINEMA Rating: Audience Age 14 and above


BRIEF FILM SYNOPSIS: In 2nd-Century Britain, two men - master and slave - venture beyond the edge of the known world on a dangerous and obsessive quest that will push them beyond the boundaries of loyalty and betrayal, friendship and hatred, deceit and heroism. Screenplay adapted Rosemary Sutcliff's classic novel The Eagle of the Ninth.