You can practically taste the battles!!!

Rating: 10/10 (6 May 2000)

This movie is a super-charged powerhouse. The battles, the personal conflicts; the bravery and honor versus the treachery and cowardice. The entire cast was extremely well chosen, especially Russell Crowe as Maximus. A time-machine could not have done a better job of taking one back to Ancient Rome 180 A.D. Yet the character of the pseudo-emperor, Commodus, reminded me of another non-military leader of the present age. Overall, Gladiator reads like a historical novel unedited. I enjoyed this movie immensely.