Gladiator

Rating: Null/10 (23 May 2000)

Gladiator was a great movie until the fight scenes. Ridley decided to use an up-close-and-personal technique to make it look like you are actually in the area with the Gladiators. It didn't work. I could never tell who was hit, who wasn't, and what was going on.
The use of art cinema techniques in the dream sequences were a waste of time. They didn't work with an "epic" movie.
Crowe was awesome as Maximus, the effects were great; it was a great film with minor flaws that cracked any flow in the movie. Redo the fight scenes and maybe fix up all the fancy artistic stuff that was only there to look neat and this movie would be a 9. Instead, I'd give it a 7 at most.

Not worth a second viewing. Watch Spartacus instead.