“What have the Romans ever done for us? Raped and pillaged mostly, according to a film that also appears to want us to root for them. Bizarre.” Catherine Bray, Film4

“This is exercise-bike cinema: energetic, relentless and tipping towards monotony.” Xan Brooks, Guardian [UK]

“There is an air of soap-on-location here, a sense that everyone has just trudged from a lunch of pasta bake and a quick scan of the tabloids. You know all the best lines were being had off camera.” Antonia Quirke, Financial Times

“Centurion makes a decently mounted action movie in which only the uniforms and weaponry differentiate it from Iraq or Afghanistan. Maybe that’s the point of it. But you still have to pen a script.” Derek Malcolm, This is London