Still an amazing production after all these years

Rating: Null/10 (27 December 1998)

I saw this movie in my childhood and was awed by it. Now older and somewhat cynical, seeing it again in its restored video letterbox version reminds me of why I liked it before. The plot is a predictably Hollywood piece of movieland piety, but the acting is good, costumes, sets and events are truly epic and have not been ever bested, even by the Oscar tying Titanic.
I watched it with my 11 year old son, who has been raised on digital fx. He was amazed,,, "you mean the horses in that race were real and not digital? They built that entire set and put people in it? Wow!"
I wonder if a movie like this will ever be made again.