Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
This movie well represents the time period.
By far the story and action in this movie are well synchronized it is based on actual characters and truth. Maximus was the one fictional character of a real story. We don't know if it happened this way, but it could of. Marcus Aurealis dies one of the greatest of Roman Emperors and the last of the golden age of Rome. Only to be succeeded by his son, Commedus, who was a vain, foolish, and comtemptable tyrant. I believed that this story was stunning visually and dramatically, the effects were delicious with just enough gore, to provide with one of the best stories I have ever seen. I was moved countless times, by all the characters. Even Commedus, the tyrant, you loved him and felt sorry for him, because he didn't really want to be the tyrant, he wanted the love of his father, and without that he became horribly ambitious. Five stars just sometimes doesn't seem good enough.