Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Excellent! Can I love this movie any more?
Wonderful action, great characters, perfect musical score, what else do we need? The DVD only adds to the movie's greatness, with the addition of commentary, behind-the-scenes video, and more. Sure, this isn't exactly the most historically accurate movie ever made, but it IS a wonderful bit of fiction, sure to satisfy the most hardened action lover, with enough intrigue and romance to fill the needs of others, too.As an avid "Romanophile," I have some issues with the portrayal of Rome as merely a blood-thirsty population of savages, plus numerous inaccuracies in staging (I even found myself trying to see how they solved the problem of canopies in the Colosseum). Still, the movie, as a whole, sucks you in, and suspends even the most scholarly disbelief (even knowing that the armor is injection-molded resin ... This is what epic Roman stories SHOULD be like. Of course, what more do I really need to say? See the list of awards it won? 'Nuff said.