You can't get much better than this!

Rating: Null/10 (14 May 2000)

Up until now I thought that I had seen the best film I was going to see for along time, in The Matrix. I went into Gladiator with high expectations, and they were blown away. WOW! This film started, with an epic battle, and from that point on I was enthralled. I sat there for near enough two and three quarter hours, just absolutely blown away.
Normally these films start off with a huge battling fight seen, lose themselves in the middle for about an hour and a half, then you get another fight seen, to polish off the movie. This started with the traditional seen, but from then, the story kicked in, and the whole picture took off. Every scene of violence was necessary and well demonstrated. The acting and direction was amazing, in particularly, Russell Crowe, and Joaquin Phoenix. They played off each other very well.
The special effects were amazing, I from what I have read they managed to generate the crowd of multi-thousands by just using 40 actors
I can't say enough good things about this movie, in fact I can't even think of one thing I didn't enjoy, everyone should check this movie out, although it gets gory at some points, but it needs to. An epic adventure of good versus bad, which never has a dull moment, not for a second.
I won't spoil the story be explaining what happens, but anyone who goes to see this film will have spent a wise £5. All I want now is the DVD!