Great movie

Rating: 10/10 (3 March 2006)

This movie is excellent.Russell Crowe makes a great performance but I think the best performance on this movie is made by Joaquin Phoenix.He is so great as the bad guy that you hate him.Well,I think this is an excellent movie with great performances and very fun.Oliver Reed(1939-1999) died while the filming of this movie and the scenes after his death are made digitally by computer and by a double.Richard Harris(1930-2002)makes a short,but excellent performance as the emperor Marco Aurelius.Djimon Hounsou made an excellent performance too as a slave friend of Maximus.The film is sad in some moments,for example the ending in which Maximus dies and when his wife and son are murdered.