Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Timeless Masterpiece
At the age of nine, my father took me out of school to see the movie Gladiator. You may wonder why in the world would my father take me out of a school to see a movie. The reason was that Gladaitor was a much more educational thing to do than half a day of thrid grade. The movie illustrates war, love, and honor better than any of its predicesers including Braveheart. The first scene of the movie is one of the greatest battle scences ever created to this day. The battle tactics and realities of war were more vivid in this piece than many people were willing to imagine. Even the almighty Roman Empire sustained extensive casualties and injury. The movie then goes on to show how Maximus is captured and forced into being a Gladiator for another mans profit. This and war were the two most common ways a man became a Gladiator. Maximus then with the seeking of vengence out matches every Gladiator in the known world and causes the Emporer Commodus to fight him in an attempt to rid him of all that he meant. In actual history Commodus did actually fight as a Gladiator for fun, but his actual unduing was the Praetorian Guard. This movie shows an acurate amount of history on the history of Gladitorial fights and of the Emporer Commodus and Roman warfare. I would rate this movie as one of the greatest in the history of moving pictures and suggest this to anyone who would enjoy a great movie.