Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 4.0
Good but Not Accurate
This movie was good and it was very well made, but as another reviewer pointed out, it is not historicaly accurate. Commodus was actually made co emperor before Marcus Aurelius died and Commodus was only his last name. Not like it matters but his full name was Lucius Aurelius Commodus.Commodus was an ill conditioned youth when he took the throne at 19 and proved to be a latter day Nero. And like Nero he died an undignified death. A professional athlete was hired to strangle him to death in his bed in 192 AD because no Caeser would have ever fought like a Gladiator in the colisseum. Also Marcus Aurelius was only 59 when he died so he probably didnt have white hair and a beard.There's so many movies historically innaccurate it doesnt really bother me anyway. i thought id just let people know the true history.