Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 2.0
WARNING: This film is NOT historically accurate
My son was bored in his history class, so I told him to toss aside those stupid books and watch GLADIATOR with us instead! This movie looked so authentic that I had to assume it is historically accurate, and told little Steven not to bother studying anything other than this film for his test on the Romans, or whatever. Much to my surprise, my poor Steven received a D-! I think it is irresponsible for the film industry to tout this film as a complete and accurate history of Rome when, in fact, it may be incomplete. Before you buy this to help you son get out of reading those silly books for history class, look into whether it is historically accurate or not. I have not read much about the Romans. I do not like to read much of anything for that matter, but it sure seemed o.k. to me...