Hopelessly Overrated

Rating: 3/10 (10 July 2001)

I cannot believe this picture won the Best Picture Oscar. Now I am completely convinced that the OSCAR is given for political/economic reasons than artistic/merit reasons.
The film does a poor job of telling a dumb story. Yeah a slave gladiator takes over the greatest empire on earth by Killing Caesar in a duel front of spectators. How likely is that? The film tries its best to try to convince that it is plausible, but that's what makes this film hilariously bad.
The fighting scenes were poorly choreographed. The Tigers lounges out, it seems, only when the director wants them to, not when the gladiator should be trounced by it.
The special effects in this movie were not special. In fact, it has ALL been done before much BETTER in other films. What is so spectacular about developing a virtual colisum when we can create a virtual dinosaurs, cities, creatures, etc etc???