Rome revisited!

Rating: 9/10 (6 June 2000)

Ridley Scott, te saluto! This film was so much better than I expected when I'd seen the trailer, the old city of Roma Aeterna so much better done and the Germans so much more true to the possible truth than in most films! (I still wonder what the German in the beginning says...anyone who knows?) Sure, this is an action movie, but with enough heart and soul to keep you tight in your chair for almost 3 hours, which is more than you can say of most films... Of course, the film is not following the true story (Commodus was, as they say, strangled by a certain Narcissus), but that isn't so important when the film grabs you like this does. So: one complaint: why put in the birds? They're animated and you see it! Why???