a great tale and vision but not flawless

Rating: 9/10 (30 May 2000)

Ridley Scott has always encountered us with other worlds, he likes to create his arena from scratch, in this case the arena is the ancient roman empire, but sadly it is inhabited by more virtual people then toy story. It is a great loss that this great tale and well acted story suffers from this modern desease called cgi, the time of great masses of extra's (real people seems to be gone. now we have to asume that those awkward moving people are real, the movie suffers from it! And why does these days everybody has to have a deathwish be reunited with their family in the afterlife (startrek generations had it, end of days had it and so does gladiator) it makes it look a little bit rediculous. but the rest of this movie is so impressive that i'm still giving it an 8.