Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 1.0
Best Picture???
After this movie won best picture, I can no longer give any respect to the academy awards. The story line is completely predictable, the character development is nonexistent, and the movie is filled with gratuitous gore to make up the difference. Some of the acting is humorously terrible (like the scene where Commodus kills his father, oh dear...) Crowe's performance is decent but certanly not an Oscar winning one.The film probably deserves two stars on account of visuals, soundtrack and passable acting by Crowe but I'm giving it one star because it has been so ridiculously overrated.