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Rating: 9/10 (5 May 2019)

Ancient Rome is thriving. After General Maximus leads the Roman legions to victory in their final battle against the Germanic tribes, he longs for nothing more than to return to his wife, son and farm in Spain. But Emperor Marcus Aurelius has other plans. Knowing that Maximus holds the utmost loyalty to him and to Rome-and not trusting his own son and heir apparent, Commodus-the aging emperor asks Maximus to succeed him on the throne.