Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 2.0
"Best Picture"??? Please....
This is a perfect example of how Hollywood politics often influence the Academy Awards. Because despite the enormous marketing muscle behind it, this film is essentially a B movie with grade A special effects. The acting is okay and the story is alright. But come on. This has to be the longest film ever made that contains no character development whatsoever. In a nutshell, after spending gobs of money producing it, the studio executives commanded that this movie win the big award. And "the people" obeyed.