Total disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (2 July 2000)

Usually Ridley Scott's movies are exciting and full of suspense but this one was a total disappointment to me. Only Joaquin Phoenix was worth staying in the cinema. The movie was too corny since while there was no fight scene the actors always were near weeping, the fight scenes were too brutal and the whole movie was much too much hollywood-like. Letting the Roman Cesar fight in the Colloseum was ludicrous as well as the figure of the old Cesar - absolutly not authentic.