Excellent movie, highly recommend it

Rating: 10/10 (3 May 2000)

Gladiator is one of those films that grabs you from the first moment until the last. There are no real points that seem to drag on, as many movies of this length (2:45) seem to contain. Russell Crowe is superb in his portrayal of a Roman fighter and gladiator. The film using nice camera work and interesting imagery for transitions from scene to scene. And the set of Rome itself was nice. I didn't like how dark (not evil-dark, just plain dark) it was many times, making it hard to see. And the theater I saw it in had a bad sound system, so it didn't sound very good. But it was a free advanced screening, so hey, who's complaining =)
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The only thing I really didn't care for was the handling of the ending. The way Maximus finished off Caesar was not very exciting. Final confrontations in action movies should be more...actiony.