Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 1.0
One of the most overrated films of all time, a bore
I don't understand why this won Oscars, or why people think this is good. It had one great scene: the chariot battle in the Colleseum. That's really the only thing worth seeing in this entire film. Russel Crowe's "character", Maximus screams Braveheart in a Roman guise. It was overmelodramatic, the music was bad, and the cinematics was worse.Russel Crowe is no actor, he reminds me of Marlon Brando in Street Car Named Desire. All he does is bellow....yay. He was not even close to Heroic. Though, he's a little bit better than Mel Gibson or Brando in those chosen films.It really would have been Braveheart, had they forced Russel Crowe to speak Spanish....<shudders at the imagination of it>. If they changed the "acting" for Crowe, why not change the character into an Englishman, or something....calling him "The Spaniard" all the time made me laugh when I watched the movie.This film reeked and I'm glad I never had the urge to buy the DVD, or see ANY Crowe's movies; although I was forced to watch Master And Commander as rental...and it was all right, if you liked sea-faring movies with big special effects.'-20 on the Rating Scale of Pukedom.