Meaty and satisfying.
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02/20/08
Gladiator (2000)
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Reviews Counted:154
Fresh:119
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: 3 hrs 1 min
Genre: Action/Adventure
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... [More]
Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Richard Harris, Connie Nielsen
Director: Ridley Scott
Reviews for Gladiator
Top CriticThe 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 CriticAn 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 CriticThe 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 CriticRidley Scott's Gladiator is an interesting and attractive action movie, but not a very forceful one.
01/01/00
Beefcake! Blood! Body slams! Boring! Boring? Well, not quite, but at 150 minutes, "Gladiator" isn't entirely the thrilling, action-packed Roman epic some fans of the genre were expecting.
08/30/09
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10/18/08
Scott triumphantly transports us back to the Roman Empire circa 180 A.D. with a painter’s eye for detail, a proven talent for manufacturing exotic realities (such as the future shock of Blade Runner) and a sweet tooth for utter spectacle.
08/07/08
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
The film is good, at times grizzly, fun -- of epic proportions.
07/14/07
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
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