Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 2.0
Hollywood's Roman Empire
The only thing that really makes this movie worthy of wasting our time is Russel Crowe's acting as "Maximus", a Roman general. I have to say, however, that this movie was a brave attempt to make an epic like those of Hollywood's golden age. Unfortunately it didn't work out and one of the main reasons for this is probably the arrogance of the filmmakers that literally distorted and changed the entire Roman history so it could fit in there movie, as if the history of the great Roman Empire was not interestig enough for hollywood. The worst of all is that Hollywood underestimated the audience's intelligence by filling the movie with frenetic scenes of battles and putting aside the real roman story(wich is much more intersting)as if the public could only be impressed by scenes in wich someone's head is cut off and not by the amazing history and legacy of the Roman Empire.