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Rating: 9/10 (20 March 2013)

I do not have the words to describe how brilliant this movie is, Yet, I'll try to find some.
The quality of this film is off the hook! And the action scenes are incredibly nice, bloody, but nice. For example Maximus first battle in the arena. The choreography of that was explicit. The war at the very beginning; also great, but every scene in this movie was great in their own way, so.
It's the classic good meets evil, slave meets emperor, right meets wrong, all these classic and endless feuds have all come together in this movie, in a fight, a fight that will not stop until there is but one left standing.
David Franzoni wrote the story and David Franzoni wrote the screenplay, and he did an indescribable, magnificent job doing that. You don't believe me? Ask the 5 Oscars, 45 other awards and 79 other award nominations this movie got.
This movie is (believe it or not) based on emotions. In fact all movies are. Take away the emotions and what have you got left? Nothing! What is a fight in the arena without rage? What is a relationship without love? What is a good day without happiness? What is the point of righteousness if there is no wrong in the world? You get my point.
In this world, there are no words, no words at all that can do the acting in this movie or the movie itself any justice.
Before I sat down to write this review I did a search for gladiator to find out the last name of the writer, and I stumbled upon this: "This movie teaches us a crucial lesson about power. Power is one of those elusive qualities that we all aspire to have. We seek it through money, through education, through politics, and through our social ties. When we think of the Roman Empire, we think of "power." The Roman Empire ruled over the Old World for hundreds of years. There were other individuals and nations that managed to conquer much of the world: Alexander the Great is the most famous, and Napoleon wreaked some havoc in his time. But since the fall of the Roman Empire, that level of sheer power has not been matched." Everything with this movie is awesome. The acting, the lighting, staging, music, everything. I can actually not think of one single thing with this movie that is less than awesome. True story.
Well, I am guessing you have probably figured this out already, but this was a good movie. So, good that I am giving it 9 stars. Yup, 9 out of 10 stars from me, and If you haven't watched it yet, I highly recommend you to do so.
Howdy ho and a bottle of rum! Buenos Noches mis lectores. Good night and see you later!

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