Not the best story for a movie

Rating: Null/10 (27 March 2002)

I had high hopes in this movie. I thought since it was so acclaimed and since I liked Gladiator so much, I would enjoy it. Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis are also two of my favorite actors. I enjoyed it up until the end. The movie was very good, but turned out very bad.
Director Anthony Mann directed the first hour, which was very good, but then he was fired and the great Stanley Kubrick was hired. For what? So they could push him around. He had no control over the rest of his film and ever since that he has disowned it. Maybe that's why the movie turned out to be so terrible. What is the point of this movie?
Spartacus shows slaves escape and it shows how they are determined to fight the Romans for their freedom. They fight and lose.In their agony of defeat they are crucified. As I said, what is the point of this movie? What a terrible ending this movie had. What a terrible movie this turned out to be. This movie is a downer. Not the best story for a movie.