Steve
21Oct11
Lol!! But I would have to disagree, sorry. Your comment made me laugh though
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Steve Pulaski
3Mar12
Not at all bad, just painfully slow and dingy looking. Great acting, fine directing, just very, very smothering with its dirty, muddy coloring.
Daniela Saucedo Garza
12Feb12
Dude, say whateaver you want about the movie, but it's Joaquin Fucking Phoenix you got here. He's such a great actor, and he displays everything in this film. I've seen it thousands of times since I was ten. I can't help but love it.
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MGeo
26Nov11
This movie is a good movie, but do not be fooled; it isn't as great as everybody claims it is. I guess people though it was so good because it was perceived to be the best movie of 2000 (a notoriously bad year for mainstream film), even though Requiem For A Dream was the best. After slogging through a bevy of bad or medicore movies throughout the 90s, Riddle Scott sorta came back with this one; but not quite.
Easton Dubois
10Oct11
Only Ridley Scott could make a film about the FUCKING ROMAN EMPIRE so goddamn fucking dull and impotent.
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NFP
11Sep11
Progenitor of the contemporary Roman Empire period adventure-dramas. Quite overwrought at times, the script is a pudding of melodrama. Great visuals and some good performances, though. Exciting fights. Are you not entertained?
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Roscoe
16Aug11
A deeply silly, vastly entertaining piece of fluff that pretty well falls apart under its own pompous weight. There's good fun in watching Oliver Reed, though.
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Bill Thompson
1Jul11
Great revenge flick, but that's all it is. There's a small stretch where the film tries to be more but those moments don't fit and drag Gladiator down somewhat. As a revenge flick Gladiator is primo stuff, through and through...
Tony Smith
20Mar11
The movie that started Ridley Scott's and Hollywood's obsession with putting Enya music to slow motion flashback or war scenes.
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Jackill Klan
12Mar11
Fuck whether or not this is 'Hollywood', this is probably one of the few movies I actually love rewatching :T
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Fishmuu
13Nov10
Watch the Extended-Version yesterday for the second time. But as I felt for the first time, it slows the story-telling way too much with interessting, but not certainly necessary information. So the theatrical version still is my first choise and Gladiator in fact one of the best Movies of the 2000-Decade.
Opan Mustafa
26Apr10
Yes, this is so 'Hollywood', but Joaquin Phoenix is such a son-of-a-bitch, I cant refuse to watch ;p
Clive.R.Watson
13Apr10
I agree with below. What do people expect from a hollywood gladiator movie? It's ahhhsome.
Jardun
4Mar10
I loved it when it came out and I was 10, and I love it now. No matter how "Hollywood" it is, I still love it.
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Clive.R.Watson
28Dec09
I expected such a rating, what with all the art-house kids farting about. This is undeniably a great film, with a great score. It may be painfully hollywood, but in the way that I love.
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Phil Worfel
11Sep09
A blatant rip off of "The Fall of the Roman Empire" and "Spartacus" but an entertaining one. It's cookie cutter hero's journey but it goes down pretty easy. Crowe deserved the Oscar but not for this. Check out "The Insider" for his Oscar worth performance.
Gina
28Jul09
This is the movie that I really took notice of Russell Crowe, his powerful acting as Maximus from a trusted and loved General to a Gladiator who kills in the arena to save his own life. Him rendering a heart breaking scene looking at his dead family...The entire movie from beginning to end is well directed. Kudos to Director Ridley Scott for his brilliant work.
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