IMDb RATING
2.7/10
5.5K
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An entire nation's destiny lies in the hands of one man.An entire nation's destiny lies in the hands of one man.An entire nation's destiny lies in the hands of one man.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Christopher Lambert
- Vercingétorix
- (as Christophe Lambert)
Jean Pierre Bergeron
- Diviciac
- (as J.P. Berger)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFilmed both in English and French.
- GoofsGauls were not known to wear horns on their helmets.
- Quotes
Julius Ceasar: When Alexander the Great was ten years younger than I am today, he had conquered the entire civilized world.
Vercingetorix: At your age, he was dead
Julius Ceasar: All the more reason to hurry.
- Alternate versionsTwo versions of the film were shot: one a French-speaking version, the other an English-speaking version.
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The English title itself is stupid and misleading.
Unfortunately it should have been the story of Vercingetorix, King of the Gauls, but it falls short in its intent. Although the Cast is hard-working and professional the movie is a weak action-adventure nonsense. If you compare it to "Gladiator" it pales and fades away into nothingness.
My supposition being, that it was conceived for a TV audience and probably was intended as a mini-series (a 2x90min. TV movie), in which case some silent and motionless scenes could be explained away as being the remnants of what should have been an interesting plot-twist of the longer version, and instead some battle scenes (some of which we might never know to which battlefield they would belong... must have been a director's afterthought just to bring life to an otherwise boring film) could have been better organized to follow the plot.
"Braveheart" and "Gladiator" it ain't. What remains is oblivion.
Poor Vercingetorix, had he lived to watch this, he would have hunted down the director rather than Julius Caesar. The French didn't honor much their hero this time...
Unfortunately it should have been the story of Vercingetorix, King of the Gauls, but it falls short in its intent. Although the Cast is hard-working and professional the movie is a weak action-adventure nonsense. If you compare it to "Gladiator" it pales and fades away into nothingness.
My supposition being, that it was conceived for a TV audience and probably was intended as a mini-series (a 2x90min. TV movie), in which case some silent and motionless scenes could be explained away as being the remnants of what should have been an interesting plot-twist of the longer version, and instead some battle scenes (some of which we might never know to which battlefield they would belong... must have been a director's afterthought just to bring life to an otherwise boring film) could have been better organized to follow the plot.
"Braveheart" and "Gladiator" it ain't. What remains is oblivion.
Poor Vercingetorix, had he lived to watch this, he would have hunted down the director rather than Julius Caesar. The French didn't honor much their hero this time...
- jlpicard1701E
- Jul 18, 2004
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- Budget
- $15,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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