Entertaining.

Rating: 5/10 (5 February 2001)

Gladiator started out with a bang: an intense battle scene, followed by some nice interaction between the characters. After that, the movie devolves into a comic book level romp through the ancient world -- the characters become cartoonish, and the plot becomes predictable. Entertaining yes, but no more so than Conan the Barbarian (which is arguably the better picture).