Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Woohoo!
I could not wait for Gladiator to come out, being a HUGE fan of Russell Crowe since I saw L.A. Confidential. I dragged a friend of mine with me to watch it because she had never seen one of his movies. Neither of us were dissappointed. The movie captivated me from the beginning action sequence. From there the movie just got better and better. This movie is definatley a movie for both sexes too: for the men you have the obvious action, and for the women you have well, Russell Crowe. Ridley Scott does a fantastic job directing this movie, bring ancient Rome back, forever immortalizing it. Joaquin Pheonix is great in this movie, playing the perfect bad guy. I hated his character just as much as Maximus does. The graphics of this movie are awesome, i can just see the Collisseum in all it glory and feel the awe the citiznes must have felt just looking at the city. As a person who took Latin and study Roman history, and watching tons of movies about this time period, I can honestly say that this by far teh best of out of all of them.