Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Don't Get Too Attached to the Characters
I cannot help but feel sadness when remembering this movie. Not because it was a bad movie, but because it was so good in that I cared about the characters. Isn't that how you know when a movie or a story is great? When one starts to forget what room they are in and starts thinking about what they would do in such and such a situation, or they find themselves praying for the characters (only very quickly smacking themself in the mind to "snap out of it"), then one knows she has a movie worth the cost. The Gladiator is a movie about duty and honor, but it is tragic as the main character never really...well, you will have to see the movie for that (if you haven't) and if you have, then your getting angry or filling in the blank where I left off has made my point. You could not stop. You knew it by heart. You knew the Gladiator. You others can know it too. Only remember this: it was not being a Gladiator that made him great; it was his character. And that point is all the more why I recommend heartily with five stars - Gladiator.Just get it and see!