This movie trades epic points for cool points

Rating: 7/10 (28 March 2007)

This movie is stylish but it is not classic nor epic. It trades its epic qualities for more modern cooler themes...such as rock music during the fight scenes.
This is more of a "last samurai" than a "gladiator".
This movie is a 7 (or maybe maybe 8) out of 10 and certainly is no where near the top 150 films of all time.
I found many of the lines to be overly cheesy and this detracted from the realism of the film. I would much rather believe that this battle actually happened than it was just some absurd story plucked from a comic book. Though obviously you cannot expect great dialogue if it is based on a graphic novel.
Definitely good entertainment but certainly not one of the best of all time and Im sure in a years time the average mark will have dropped to the 7ish range