Meaty and satisfying.
Comment
02/20/08
Gladiator (2000)
77 %
Reviews Counted: 150 Fresh: 115 Rotten:35 Average Rating: 7/10
Consensus:
Ridley Scott and an excellent cast successfully convey the intensity of Roman gladitorial combat as well as the political intrigue brewing beneath.
Runtime: 2 hrs 35 mins
Synopsis: Ridley Scott (BLADE RUNNER, ALIEN) transports Hollywood to second-century Rome in this rousing historical epic that proudly harkens back to such films as BEN-HUR and SPARTACUS. Russell Crowe plays Maximus, a Roman general who leads the troops in conquering Germania for the empire. When an... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Richard Harris, Djimon Hounsou, Connie Nielsen
Director: Ridley Scott
Screenwriter: David H. Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson
Producer: Steven Spielberg, David H. Franzoni, Douglas Wick
Composer: Hans Zimmer
Screenwriter: David H. Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson
Producer: Steven Spielberg, David H. Franzoni, Douglas Wick
Composer: Hans Zimmer
Reviews
Top Critic
The cast is strong (notably Nielsen as Commodus's vacillating sister, and the late Oliver Reed, unusually endearing as a gladiator owner), the pacing lively, and the sets, swordplay and Scud catapults impressive.
06/24/06
Top Critic
An effortlessly charismatic screen actor, Crowe brings shades of his other well-known roles to the part.
03/03/02
One of those movies 'they don't make anymore,' Gladiator is a guts and glory epic with swords and sandals, spectacular action sequences, a seriously good hero and a cast of (digitally enhanced) thousands.
12/10/01
Huge in scope and endlessly exciting, Gladiator is the new word in blockbuster.
01/01/00
Top Critic
The sheer dynamism of the action, coupled with Hans Zimmer's lavish score and the forcefield of Crowe, still makes this a fiercesome competitor in the summer movie stakes.
01/01/00
Top Critic
Ridley Scott's Gladiator is an interesting and attractive action movie, but not a very forceful one.
01/01/00
If a gladiator film doesn't work as spectacle or as bloodthirsty action, what's left? Drama? It's dead on that level, too...
02/14/08
Ultimately, Gladiator is an honorable and inoffensive spectacle with nothing extraordinary to recommend it.
04/27/07
Though the digital effects lack the weight and conviction of their equivalents in old Cecil B. De Mille movies, Ridley Scott's sword-and-sandal epic has some of the intensity of old Hollywood in terms of storytelling, spectacle, and violence.
02/06/07
A Roman version of Ben-Hur, Gladiator succeeds on only slightly more levels than it fails.
12/27/06
Notwithsdanding the blood, gore, and CG effects, this is an old-fashioned historical saga, a throwabck to the sand-and-sandals epics of Quo Vadis and Ben-Hur.
07/28/06
Gladiator is a movie that while watching, you can enjoy; for a while.
09/30/05
There's careful thought evident in suggesting what can only be conjectured. If you're going to enjoy this entertainment, don't be overly preoccupied with historical accuracy.
05/16/05
It's an exciting yarn...and does not disappoint the action junkie. It's just not great.
04/09/05
Listen to the audience as they leave the theatre. Are they talking about being moved by honor and justice, or going 'wow' at the bloodshed so spectacularly delivered?
01/15/05
Scott...has delivered the first Roman Empire epic in more than 30 years and it's a doozy.
06/26/04
[Crowe's] commanding performance not only towers over Ridley Scott's epic adventure, but elevates it to a higher plane.
01/18/04
If no one paid attention to Russell Crowe after his stellar performances in "The Insider" and "L.A. Confidential," they did so after he put on his Roman togs.
11/25/03
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