Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 3.0
May I Borrow a Cup of Celluloid
Somebody gets the scripts of Ben Hur, Spartacus, The Fall of the Roman Empire, and Enter The Dragon. He spreads them all over the floor, picks out pages, and scrambles them all up together. Then, he gets the sound track from Zulu and adds it in.Really, this is supposed to be a high budget flick. Yet, there are no original ideas in the plot. To add insult to injury, the damn German hordes at the beginning of the thing sound just like Cy Enfield's Zulu warriors from a truly great film. Can't Ridley afford to do his own sound? Does he have to use the track from Michael Caine's first big movie?Russell Crowe is no Kirk Douglas. He is not Chuck Heston, not even Steve Boyd. And, he damn sure ain't Bruce Lee! A very average production.