Fantastic film!

Rating: 9/10 (14 November 2013)

Every once in a while, you watch a film so good, you can't help but tell everyone you know, that's how I felt after watching this. From beginning to end, it provided delightful acting, a great storyline and perfect editing. Location wise, spot on. Props looked like they were genuinely from the era, and the story was not too unrealistic, which made it a great film to understand and watch. It doesn't quite have the feistiness of 300 but it's storyline far exceeds 300's which in comparison is a little mediocre, but then again 300 also uses slow-mo which Gladiator does not. Joaquin Phoenix executes his villainous role spectacularly, and really gets us to hate the guy he is portraying. The loss of Maximus' family also makes you want to sympathise with the character more which delves you deeper into the actions he makes, and makes you far happier when he overcomes Commodus. A great film, highly recommendable!