Gladiator

Trevor Tillman

While a classical story, elevated by its incredible ensemble cast, it's nonetheless undermined by being ugly as sin. Compositions so tightly framed that I had to check whether I was viewing a matted presentation. MTV-style speed ramps, choppy slo-mo, unintelligible action, harsh bleach-bypass color processing, and shaky CGI have all aged it poorly. Forgivable if only it were aspiring to pulp instead of prestige.

Nicholas Gregory

At least it's a blockbuster film not built around a teenage mentality, but is an old-fashioned epic, and is how a summer film should be: an ensemble cast, thousands of real extras, soaring speeches, well-regulated action set pieces, and even if it's melodramatic, at least it feels adult. Rewatching this made me pissed that Hollywood rarely makes even a faulty period film like Gladiator anymore. The house always wins.

Roscoe

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.

Christopher M. Jones

the coliseum scenes are dope as fuck and the ending is strangely moving for how hollow the rest of the film rings. more importantly, Age of Empires II is like $15 on Steam, with all the expansions and everything

Jeremy Tamura

I was surprised that it was this good. The three main actors give great performances and the plot is really efficient. The visuals hurt me sometimes (I think of these so-called dreams of Maximus, which are close to me to some kind of MTV video clip, with horse running and the clouds moving fast). I also think that how the palace is shown is really far from what actually was.

Phil Worfel

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.

Ethan

Quite possibly Ridley Scott's masterpiece. This is an amazing epic that features an incredibly brilliant and badass performance from Russell Crowe who received a well deserved Academy Award for this.

Il secondo maestro del revolver

Perché esiste gente che perde tempo prezioso a scrivere cagate assurde pensando di scrivere qualcosa di bello?