Maximus,the gladiator lives and defends.

Rating: Null/10 (5 April 2014)

Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" which was published in the year 2000,is the kind of movie upon which Hollywood once built its reputation but rarely produces anymore.It contained gorgeous scenery,impressive set design,and an epic storyline. Russell Crowe is Maximus, a popular general in the emperor Marcus Aurelius's army, who begins the film by winning a great and bloody battle against the Deutch hordes thus securing the roman borders. We learn from this victory that his troops love him, as does the aging emperor (Richard Harris), who asks Maximus to take over in Rome and root out the mercenaries who are corrupting the place. But the emperor already has a son, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), who is a self-indulgent, cowardly layabout, with hints of an incestuous relationship with his sister. After that, Commodus, learning of the emperor's decision to name Maximus and not him as the next ruler, kills his father and orders Maximus killed. But because the movie still has another two hours to run, the killers are foiled and Maximus survives.