a great story line, a great actor and a great director what more could you want?

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2000)

Gladiator is a story about Maximus Decimus Meridias (Russell Crowe) a general in the Roman army. The emperor chooses him to be the next emperor to follow him instead of his son. Angry, his son, kills the emperor that night and announces that sadly he is now the emperor of Rome, while ordering Maximus to be executed early in the morning so no one will challenge him. But Maximus escapes and races home to try and save his family from the emperor arriving to late and finding his son and wife killed and their house destroyed. As he is recovering he is picked up by a slaver who sells him as a gladiator, Maximus is now forced to fight in the arena and slowly makes his way to Rome where the new emperor has ordered that games will be held. Maximus decides that he will go to Rome and try and find the emperor, fueled by the deaths of his family he will try to kill Commodus, I won't tell you the ending because you should already have seen it and know what happens but i don't what to spoil it for you if you have not. Gladiator has superb action shots and is on of the best I have seen in a long time. Get it now.