Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Lights, camera, and plenty of action!
Director Ridley Scott brings the heat of the battle arena into your home with this action packed movie based on the fictitious life of a gladiator. The award-winning actor Russell Crowe plays the leading role in this movie as Maximus, a Roman general turned gladiator. With a 2 hour and 35 minute run time, this movie does not leave you wanting for adventure.Maximus wants nothing more from life than to return to his family and take up farming again. A friend to the people of Rome, as well as the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, he is unable to return to the life he had previously led and due to his fame, and the jealousy of that fame, the antagonist Commodus (played by Joaquin Phoenix) attempts to have him and his family killed. It is after the murder of his wife and son that Maximus vows to get his revenge. It is also at this point that the action intensifies making the movie the Award Winning picture that it became.The intense, fast paced gladiator battles set the stage, while the emotional struggle of the players set the backdrop. Fear, honor, and vengeance all play leading roles in the outcome of this motion picture masterpiece.