Thumbs up for Gladiator

Rating: 10/10 (25 December 2004)

Gladiator is indeed one of the top ten best movies ever produced today, I would say. The magnificent battle scenes with the crowd of the enormous Colosseum, interferes with the sad story in a splendid way, that takes your breath away for almost the entire movie. There couldn't possibly be any better actor to fill the place of the great gladiator with, than Russell Crowe (Insider). Maybe an even better, or at least as good as Crowe though, was the old actor Richard Harris, who unfortunately died a few years after playing Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator.
I really like this one, and I will keep saying that it's a masterpiece in every way. Thumbs up for Gladiator!