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Rating: 10/10 (24 April 2017)

Gladiator really is one of the greatest films ever made! It has everything that a movie like this needs to have in order to be successful. It has an amazing cast of talented actors that nail their characters and give marvelous performances. It has impeccable set design and costumes that creates the time and place in which the entire movie takes place. It has a script that is so well written that you will never become bored or wish that the movie would hurry up. When you combine all of these things together how could the film not turn out to be the winner of five academy awards and become one of the top rated movies ever. The acting first of all. Russel Crowe is amazing as Maximus, he gives such a focused, raw, intense performance that will without a doubt move you to tears. Phoenix is also great here, very evil dedicated character that will do anything, basically there are no limits to his wickedness and Phoenix plays it all so well. So all in all the acting is out of this world great. The story is very well put together and it has the appropriate emotional ties built into it so that the audience is pulled in and they care about the characters and what happens to them. The combat sequences are very very well filmed, I was impressed by the quality of those scenes in particular. The sets and costumes and just about anything technical is all very intricate and done with careful attention to detail. 10/10 for Gladiator! And I adored the ending by the way, how touching and what a right way to wrap things up.