What a mess!

Rating: 1/10 (27 May 2000)

Ridley Scott is an relapsed. Since "The Duelists" he insists in put some cheap glamour on historical situations. The result is a complete mess of incorrect historical insights, kitsch images based on manneristic painters of the XIX century like Sir Lawrence Alma-Tedema and Jean-Léon Gérôme. The dialogs are pure soap-opera: the kingdom of obvious bla, bla, bla. Some isolated efforts of Richard Harris and Oliver Reed are responsible for the less camp moments of the movie. For a second time we assist The Fall of the Roman Empire. Now as a farce. As we said in Brazil: Que merda!!!