A great and inspiring movie

Rating: 9/10 (11 December 2006)

I saw this movie several years ago and fell in love with it. It stars Russle Crowe as a powerful Roman general, who gets framed for the murder of the emporer, and nearly escapes execution. He is captured by a slave lord, and forced to fight in the arena for entertainment. His great skills and determination bring him as far as the Colleseum in Rome, where he fights in front of thousands of spectators who cheer his name every time he fights. The new emporer, and the one truly responsible for the death of the old emporer, wants him dead. He trys to have him executed, but the crowd is up in arms at this. Finally the emporer challenges him to a duel. But the fight is not fair. The emporer stabs him before the fight, and with such a huge advantage, eventually kills him.