Very little about Romulus and Remus indeed: the generic story could be about any other characters most of the time. Italians seem to have the very same longstanding tradition of Hollywood of making movies supposedly based in mythology but which actually ignore heavily the myths themselves. Edition is also problematic, with some transitions missing (I noticed this problem at least twice). The film would be very similar to any contemporary sword-and-sandal flick from Hollywood if it were not for the extremely nice idea of making the dialogues in Old Latin, following the audacious steps of good movies such as Passion of Christ and Apokalipto. There is an effort (I do not know how much seriously historically accurate; probably very little...) to explore how were the lives of people in early Iron Age in Italian peninsula: the divination scene and the bear headgear were some visually nice elements. However, the film is just sluggish and forgettable.
Review of The First King
