Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 2.0
Sloooooooooooooooooow
Am I the only one who found this movie to be VERY slow and much too long? People talk about "Gladiator" like it's some slam bang action picture. The trailer sure made it look like one, yet everything in the trailer came from the last third of the film. Every scene in the first half of the movie is so protracted I had to stop myself from yelling, "GET HIM IN THE COLISEUM ALREADY!" The film is well structured and a good story but there's not enough meat on this bone for a film well over two hours. And so it feels s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d with pretty visuals, pretension and unnecessary talk-talk-talk. If we could get a 90 minute cut of this on the DVD set, I'd buy and treasure it. Until then, I'll keep watching "Braveheart."