A world reinvented - bigger than life on screen.

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2019)

I was totally impressed by the craftmenship in this film. The sunlit city, reinvented with CGI and tons of real life sets, the extras, the props, the costumes and just the sheer amount of detail in the pictures struck me. It delivers the power and greatness of the Roman Empire and the power struggle of the characters in it.
For me, the performance of Joaquin Phoenix was even more powerful and detailed than Crowe's, but that is up to taste, I guess.
The music and Ridley Scotts skill to bring large entities (such as an old empire) with images back to life is one of the greatest trades shown in this film for me. Like blade runner... a masterpiece, showing a different society, politics but still relatable human struggles in a struggling world.
Well done!