What was this?

Rating: 4/10 (20 October 2015)

I am yet to come to terms with the hype this film has got. Nothing in it makes it deserve to be in the IMDb's top 250 list, neither the Oscar, nor all the good things that have been written in its praise.
The first 30 minutes or so are good, quite impressive indeed. They kill the emperor, kill Maximus' wife and son, but that is it. The story takes off well but completely loses its flight right from the point he is captured by those slavers. From then on the film loses its point and becomes a tiring exercise, predictable too. It gets more and more boring as well as the film approaches its ending. A huge disappointment if I am honest.