Deserves top 20.

Rating: 10/10 (3 June 2009)

The beautiful theme and heart-wrenching music to Gladiator alongside the gore is why it tops all epic movies ever. When often I recommended or quoted Gladiator- most middle aged women would laugh commenting 'I don't think thats the sort of film for me'- and yet every one of them were brought in and left in a state of awe by the end.
This is not a movie driving from the budget- this is a beautifully filmed, acted and written story that the budget helps to bring across and give that epic feel. The music is without doubt the nearest thing I have ever heard to how I felt watching this- If movies such as The Dark Knight can get top 10- this should be n.2-5 however, I believe definitely top 20- as neither batman not any epic i have seen in the last 10 years has given the same feeling by the end of the film.I watched it in the cinema- ther was a short 10second silence at the end- and then everyone got up to applaud.