Fun Flick

Rating: Null/10 (5 May 2000)

Not the worlds best film, but a great movie, if you follow me.
Gladiator is pretty to look at, exciting to watch, and manipulates the viewer in a way that is entertaining and not offensive, generating the appropriate emotional responses at the appropriate times.
The characters have little depth, but the characters in a movie such as this aren't supposed to have depth. They are supposed to be good, or bad, and while some can change sides, it really doesn't have to be all that explicable. I expected a grand, bloody soap opera, and Gladiator delivered admirably. I'll see it again on the big screen just to soak up more, I think.