Maybe I'd expected too much but entertained

Rating: 8/10 (5 July 2000)

Since I'd heard the new Roman gladiator movie has been made, I'd gotten excited and had high expectation. I'm not trying to say I didn't like this movie. I loved this movie and want to see it again. I think that I'd expect a movie, a masterpiece like ben-hur. This movie should have been a masterpiece with these marvelous actors, big budget, talented director.
When I first saw "Gladiator", the one thing I didn't like was ending. in ending scene the whole theater starts laughs. too cheesy to touch. How could Lucilla and the people let Roman Emperor's dead body abandoned like that? I think there's lack details of how brutal, devilish the emperor was. and how much the people in Rome hated their emperor.
Joaquin Phoenix was the most outstanding part to me. Russell crowe was a gorgeous and excellent figure as always. I hope there would be lots of Oscar chance to come!!