Not strong enough

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2000)

When I watch a movie, I'm waiting that the music, the effects, the sound and the actors can make transport to another world. This movie tries to get you to the Roman's era and it happens for several moments specially in the Maximus' fights at the Roman Circus, but in the begining there are too many fails in the script, and those scenes where you must feel deeply sad you don't get any feeling... The movie has great music for listening to at home but is not ideal for the scenes, it doesn't support the movies' ideas... The effects are cold and don't support the scenes neither... so the movie just get in the middle of its way and there are some scenes where you can even remember those movies where the job is too easy and eberything's prepared for the movie before it was made... (Do all the slaves already know the Maximus' strategies for the war?)