Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
one of the few perfectly done movies
This movie is not about the fight scenes or special effects. It is the story of how a man overcomes both disastrous events and faces his personal struggles. All the characters in this movie are wonderfully real and the movie has a great soundtrack also.If you think Commodus was corny in the movie, obviously you don't know anything about Roman history; some emperors were actually more crazy than him. It took me until the third viewing to understand how masterfully he was portrayed.Don't just watch this movie for the battle scenes; it is so much more than that. Watch it for the characters and how their beliefs affect their decisions. If I could never see another movie except for this one, that would be fine with me. Ridley Scott is a genius!