Research? For A Movie? You're kidding????

Rating: Null/10 (4 April 2003)

This has got to be the most historically inaccurate movie ever made. That is why it fails in my book. Yes, the environment is very realistic but if your going to do a movie about the Roman Empire and Gladiators then do it right.
ON A SCALE OF 1-10 STARS (10 BEING BEST)
I GIVE "GLADIATOR"

10 STARS (-**********)

ON THE POSITIVE SIDE (+ SIDE)
1) REALISTIC ENVIRONMENT (Using C.G.I. to repair the Coloseum was brilliant)
ON THE NEGATIVE SIDE (- SIDE)
1) CONCEPT OF SLAVERY (No slave has ever won his or her freedom)
2) OVERLY BRAVE EMPEROR (No way did any Emperor die while fighting in a Gladiator type game. It was just a poor excuse to have Marcius kill the bad guy)
3) UNREALISTIC GLADIATOR ARMOR (I saw a show on the history channel and they showed all the types of Gladiators in Ancient Rome and there was no tiger man armor)
SPOILER WARNING (IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN GLADIATOR AND STILL WANT TO THEN STOP READING)
4) BAD ENDING (After all the trouble to earn his freedom, he dies shortly afterwards)