The most overrated movie of the year.

Rating: 4/10 (26 October 2000)

GLADIATOR is a movie that should have been great. Great cast, great director, great idea- so why is the movie so bad? Because of the screenplay, as well as other things. The screenplay contains some horrible dialogue that even great actors can't make sound plausible. The acting is inconsistent. You have Russell Crowe playing it as some huge epic, Joaquin Phoenix horribly overacting, Richard Harris underacting- and no one seems to be acting in the same movie with each other. Then, look at the special effects- Ridley Scott makes the entire screen dark and blurry so you can't tell how crappy his effects are. I can't believe the kind of raving reviews this film is getting- it's just plain bad.