Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 3.0
Entertaining cheese.........but Best Movie?
I did enjoy this movie. I also enjoyed Conan the Barbarian, Mad Max, Top Gun and many Saturday morning cartoons - all good entertainment providing a brain dead escape for a couple of hours [actually, there are a few Saturday morning cartoons that run a little deeper]. Come on folks, strip away the gloss and all you got is one supernatural general kickin a little ____. Oh yeah, there's the other standards: avenge his family's death, evil wimpy/insecure emperor, new side kick buddy, the invincible (supposed) combatant .....What does our good General expect....I wonder how many thousands of orphans were created by Maximus in his many invasions? Director of movie: No No Noooo, let's not go there, we don't want to tax our audience.See it, enjoy it and shelve it...not worthy of veneration nor an Academy Award.