It was the sword the women liked!

Rating: Null/10 (8 June 2000)

Gladiator is not just a display of how perfect special effects can be a giving part of a movie - the effects of Gladiator give you a chance to follow a splendid story of a man who puts honour and friendship above ambition. What I especially find so amazing is the details - for instance how both the ageing emperor, Marcus Aurelius, and his son, Commodus, have a harelip or how the colour of the light chances: warm and red in Marcus Aurelius' tent as he speaks with Maximus - cold and blue as Maximus steps out of the tent. And historical facts make the movie so much more interesting; how the emperors kept the people happy and in the hollow of the hand with food and entertainment or how the gladiators kept wealthy women "happy" (it was the sword the women liked).
Altogether this is not a movie anyone should let go unnoticed.