Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 2.0
Make it stop
I don't know what all the hooplah is with Gladiator. The fight scenes? COuldn't have been the fight scenes, the camera was shaky, much of the deaths were off screen, and, did I mention, the camera was shaky?The story? Umm, seems to me just like your typical revenge type story strung together with the Gladiator battles to keep your attention along with some incest.Ah, the lovely scenery. Nope, just bland dark muddy colours here. They don't reflect the theme much either, even good events take place in front of hideous backdrops.Maybe, Russel Crowe's acting. Some of his lines are compelling, while others are bleak, empty and hollow.I nearly fell asleep between action scenes, which ultimately diminished into hand to hand battle. I didn't care how the movie ended, all I cared about was when. I yearned for another battle like the chariot one, but it never came. I yearned to see an umpredictable ending, but didn't. This movie failed to deliver in almost every category.But it did have an ample amount of gore...is that why people liked it? Blood may keep some people held, and blind them from a boring story and 1 dimensional characters, but not me.