S'alright, but only that.

Rating: 6/10 (24 December 2000)

An all right but not very worthy heir to Roman epics like Ben Hur and Spartacus, Gladiator runs overlong for its meagre story and fails to dazzle with pitifully poor fight scenes. It has a good cast and a decent plot, but there simply isn't enough of anything to keep one's attention for two and a half hours. Some judicious edits and a new choreographer would have served this piece extremely well.