Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
entertained
I thought this movie was solid. From the cinematography, art direction, writing,story, acting, directing, production, evan costume - all I thought hit their mark. Good work all around. This movie is a good example of when you have a good story and it is well written it can lift everything else. I imagine that during the production of this movie the people involved knew they had something. The acting was strong for all of the major characters. Props to the casting director who, it seemed, made some interesting choices that paid off big. I am happy that a blockbuster action hero type was not cast as the gladiator and they went with Russel Crowe. Crowe really does have some acting chops. Who would thought that a shy, introverted, tabacco executive (The Insider) could knock it out of the park as a Roman General. "Quintus why are you armed?" Jaquin Phoenix really stood out too as the ambitious, manipulative, bastard son too Marcus Aurelius. Connie Neilson - very pretty, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi et all .. grade A