Glad it's over

Rating: 2/10 (13 January 2001)

Well, there go two and a half hours of my life I can never retrieve.
Perhaps a better name would have been "The Comedy of Commodus", as I laughed through most of this travesty -- that is, when I wasn't groaning. This is the kind of "historic epic" that is neither historically correct in the details nor the epic it considers itself to be. The endless historical errors are mentioned in other comments and in the "goofs" section of the IMDB page for this movie, so there's no need to get into them here. As for the epic part ... well, I spent much of the time trying to decide which real epic was being ripped off ("Braveheart" a lot of the time; "Private Ryan" definitely in the opening battle scenes, via the hectic camera work and the leached-out colors).
Let me put it this way: If you thought "Legends of the Fall" was a good movie, you'll probably fall for it again here.