This piece of slop won Academy Awards?

Rating: Null/10 (2 February 2004)

The acting was terrible. The story was unengaging. The soundtrak had no good marches but consisted of elevator musak.
The dialogue was boring and forgettable.
The fight scenes were poorly staged, poorly edited, and basically mtv style gibberish. Russel Crowes performance was pitiful. Commodus was worthless.
The other supporting characters were inconsequential and added nothing to the movie. Oliver Reed's face was stately. The kid was cute.
Rating 8. 8 minutes approximately of the movie are worth seeing. Some of the landscapes, some of the arena. 8 minutes out of 155 minute movie as a percentage is .0516. Rounding to the nearest tenth of a decimal and translating that to a scale of 1 to 10 I give this movie a rating of zero out of 10.