Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
An amazing portrait view of the Roman Empire
Russel Crowe stars in this awesome epic of the late Roman Empire, and the treachery that riddled within it. Crowe, stars as general Maximus, the dedicated soldier of Rome, ever ready to die for his cause. Little did Maximus know that the emperor Marcus Aurealis had chosen him rather then his son to succeed him to the throne. Once his son, Commodus got word of this, he immediatly killed Aurealis and attempted to murder Maximus and his family. Eventaully escaping to become captured and throne into the colloseum, Maximus must play the deadliest game of all in Rome. Crowe convincingly plays his part, making up for the small gaps in the plot that plaugue the film. Also some historical in-accuracies but nothing as to deny the film of any points.