Get my agent on the phone...

Rating: 2/10 (19 September 2010)

How can so many great actors have allowed themselves to be involved in this tripe. Ben Kingsley, looking a bit like Gandalf, what has happened to you? Colin Firth does his best but it's Xena warrior princess on a bigger budget and he struggles along with everyone else to make something of the awful screenplay. The studio has tried to make it appeal to as many as possible, there's the token strong female character who, once revealed, struggles to fill the armour (should have given the job to the stunt guy who plays the earlier scenes), the attempt to kill Caesar with repeating bolt throwers (a dagger would have done the job). The Gauls are the best thing about this movie and Peter Mullan is as ever very watchable. but it's so hammy I cringed with every scene. Give it a miss, do yourself a favour and go watch Gladiator again.