A man finds an alternate way to achieve his destiny.

Rating: Null/10 (11 May 2000)

Despite being predictable, this movie benefited from a kind of violence discretion - big battles but no torture type scenes, which always make me squirm and which I will always avoid if possible. Battles are another thing altogether.
It was fun to watch the harnessed chariot horses suddenly sprout stirrups (which hadn't been invented at that time, I believe) and for the stirrups on other saddles to be modern steel stirrups with rubber foot treads! It was also fun to see how quickly and scarlessly gladiators heal. This is a goofmaster's delight of a movie.
Nevertheless, I would glad(iator)ly see it again - for Crowe, Harris and for Oliver Reed's last performance.