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Rating: Null/10 (23 June 2000)

Simply put, this is a gladiator flick; a movie about half-naked men beating the crap out of each other, and it looks like it cost about a billion dollars. Everything looks so expensive you know they could have fed millions of those bloated African kids with the money they spent. They've rebuilt massive amounts of old Rome and did a pretty good job too, except their Coliseum looks like it holds about 5,000, not 100,000. The script is unbelievably well paced, and the special effects don't stick out like they did in The Phantom Menace. It's amazing what 100 million dollars can do for a Hollywood flick when it's not wasted on people going to Mars in phony space shuttles.