Centurion A.D.

I got curious about the movie based on the cover as it reminded me of Neil Breen covers. Unfortunately this movie has very little going for it.

The dialogue and story is the biggest problem as it is mostly bad jokes and religious preaching. The acting is ok to bad for the most part. Only one that stands out as really bad is the main character Archer.

There were some highlights in this movie however. Most in a so bad it's good kind of way. The fighting scenes were really funny with weird editing like fast cuts, speeding up and slowing down. Effects were also pretty bad, but it's a low budget picture so that's fine.

All in all a very preachy religious movie which is mostly filled with boring dialogue and bad acting.

I'm not one to write a review, but this one get a huge thumbs up! Roger Ebert should have stuck around for this one!

Although it was a seriously micro-budgeted film, it packs a huge wallop with masterfully done Acting, Direction, and Visual Effects. I must say it again, magnificent acting from the entire cast! What a gem of a film, with such a huge screen presence.

From the moment I started watching I was drawn into the story, and taken on a wonderful character driven roller-coaster ride with a huge pay-off at the end! Katherine Randolph was perfect in the Role of "Kim Harris" a nurse struggling to make sense of all that happens to her. Katherine's depth of a multi-layered character was absolutely perfect. Then the ever-endearing "Reverend Basil Mason" played effortlessly by Martin Horsey was smart and captivating. "Archer Stone", played by Brian Reed Garvin was just wonderful giving us a magnificent and a truly powerful performance. Why have these multi-talented actors been stuck in smaller roles, they have fantastic presence on film! Vincent Inneo was very good giving a strong performance as "FBI Agent Rocco Rinaldi". And we cannot forget child actor Carter Thomas, who was just perfect as the "Young Basil Mason", he was commanding and truly endearing.

It is amazing to me that Hollywood cannot make films like this. It is very apparent that this film was made from pure passion and a cast that was truly behind it from the beginning. With all the millions of dollars wasted on terrible films, why can't Hollywood do this?

My Hats off to the Cast and Crew, and especially the director Brian Reed Garvin for making this film! This Director will be an academy award winner if I have anything to do with it! Do Not Miss this, it is an amazing ride!

Does anyone know if a sequel is in the works?

Prime Video seems to have acquired rights for a bunch of christian sci-fi movies recently, this being probably the most confusing, poor made, full of religious nonsense and with less actual sci-fi of them all (at least I hope so).

The fun part is that, while the others are also boring, this one is so bad is good.

The complete nonsense feeling is even improved in the italian version (which has original audio and italian subtitles): they are so poorly translated that the dialogues make no sense at all in lots of parts.

One of the best: you know that "bike" can both mean "bicycle" and the fuel-propelled thing. Well, at one point, an actor is looking to another one riding a motorbyke and in italian he asks: "are you into bicycles?" "yes, they have two wheels and an engine, what's the problem?"

without hilarious italian subtitles, this would be a 2, but it gains a whole point more with them.

My buddy Eric shared this with me and I thank him! Yes, it's a low budget film with non-'Alist' actors. I consider it to be a Christian film with a great message. It's probably not for those under 15, as there is an adult theme but clean language and action. (Best of all, no one smokes-a personal pet peeve! ;) But one must be impressed with Brian Reed Garvin's first, full length film. He wrote, directed, starred, etc.. The cast were all more than adequate and some were quite good. The dialogue was weak in a few places but overall a good story. Even the special effects were decent-not cheesy! The only real issue I have is most non Roman Catholics don't carry rosaries so why would Rev. Mason? And the King James is NOT the 'best translation' of the Holy Bible; the Coptic is with the Greek second.

I absolutely loved this movie. What a great message and great action and effects. Well done! Brian Reed Garvin has outdone himself! This movie is full of great acting and some off the wall humor. When you have a shoe-string budget, it can be hard to pull off a blockbuster. But Brian hit a home run with this one.