Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Astonishing, Breathtaking...what more can I say?
I am a long time fan of Roman history, I spent my years in highschool writing report after report on ancient civilizations and Rome has always been my favorite. I have seen cheap rip off movies on Rome and other ancient civ's and I have high expectations. Thus, going out and purchasing this movie was something I was very critical of. I missed the opportunity of going to see it at the theatre (either that or I did not want to sit for 2.5hours in a uncomfortable chair :) Anyway, I was amazed at the quality of the DVD. I am even more impressed that it is better quality then the theatre version. They fixed the colours and what not. The story itself was simply astonishing, it followed true Roman history and even incorporated various historical battles such as the remaking of the battle of carthage, which I thought to be a nice touch.Overall I was very, and still am very, impressed by this movie. I will end this now so I can go watch a few chapters over again.