Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
This movie is great
First, whoever wrote the post that the Emporer of rome never got into the ring to do battle is an uninformed fool. It is documented MANY times that the emporer would enter battle against man and beast and the crowd would love it. This movie has a shallow plot, which isnt a bad thing, great acting, which is a good thing, increadible fight scenes, which is a good thing, emotional characters, good thing, and an ending that people SHOULD have expected from an epic. While it would have been great to see Maximus enter Rome with his army, anyone who thought he would was seriously blind to the movie. Russell Crowe as Maximus is a great pick(i like him better than gibson in braveheart), and Commodus was played brilliantly by Phoenix. If you like action packed movies with feeling in the characters, this one is for you