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Summary: Great Acting,brilliant music
Review: Hans Zimmer is great.Simply the greatest music composer i have ever heard.Russel Crowe a deserving oscar winner.The right choice for the movie.And Joaquin Phoenix is a plus to the movie.The movie is written well goes well to the right to the end and what makes it better is Hans Zimmer music.Matches soo well wid the movie and the scenes.Tracks like The Battle,Honor Him and Now We Are Free are soo good.The movie is soooo well written.It is the BOMB.Dont be a loooooser buy this movie right now.
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Summary: BEST MOVIE EVER
Review: Best movie ever, it's about Maximus Veridius, who in the words of Commodus, "The general who became a slave, the slave who became the gladiator... the gladiator who defeated the Emporer!"
Is very dramatic, yet not over or under-acted. Has a great story line, and wiked sound track by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerard.
I accedently found out while on ask.Com that this film is actually based on a true story.
In fact- this movie is so good, i have decided to make a computer game about the life of a gladiator.
You can learn a lot from this film, with facts about the Romans aswell as important morals. But you have to see it to know it!!!
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Summary: The best movie since saving privit ryan
Review: This is the best movie i have ever seen Russell Crowe in. He did an excellent job. The attention to detail in this movie was also very good. I was glad to see how accurate they were in showing how the Roman army fought a battle in the opening battle scene of this movie. This is also the best movie i have ever seen dealing with the Roman empire, it is also the most detailed one. You can not go wrong with GLADIATOR, buy it today.
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Summary: In one word - EXCELLENT
Review: The plot of this movie had the potential of being a very, bloody, gory, stupid, and meaningless movie if it landed in the wrong hands. Thankfully that didn't happen and Rob Ridley did nothing less than a spectucular job on this movie.The movie starts with the main character, Maximus leading his troops to victory. After the war, the king tells Maximus that he would perfer that he become king over his son, when he died. Of course the King's son, Commodus, did not like that and after the king dies, orders Maximus be killed. Maximus escapes his assilants, is found, and becomes a slave. As a slave he is forced to fight as a gladitor, and he eventually fights his way to to appearing in the famous Roman colliseum. He gains the supports of other slaves and even his master, and he vows revenge on the new king, Commodus. The action scenes in this movie were perfect, nothing was overdone or underdone. There was alot of blood and violence in this movie, but they were ALWAYS in the right place and fit perfectly in the current scence. Maximus was not a cold-blodded killer, until he was in the "ring". In the ring, his skills, ruthlessness and sometimes arrogance were very pleasing to watch. He knew that no one could beat him even if it was not a fair fight. And the creator of Gladiator did an excellent job in getting these facts across without actually coming out and saying it. The acting of this movie was also superb. The two main charatcters played by Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix did spectacular jobs with there roles. Crowe had a very convincing performance assuming the role of Maximus. Phoenix also did a very good job in betraying the cowardness of Commodus, and also betraying the flat out "jerk" (since I can't use another word) that he is. This movie shows that there are still people out there that can produce quality action movies. Alot of action movies these days are rushed and thrown together and bombard the audience with meaningless overdone action scenes where they are not appropriate. Not the case with Gladiator. This movie is easily in the top 5 of my all time favorites. I rarely give 5 stars on a review, and usually when I see a very good movie I give it 4 stars as I would feel much better giving a movie 4 stars when it was actually a 4.5 rather than just giving it a 5. However I did not want to give gladiator just 4 stars because it is much better than that. If there was one movie I would feel good about giving 5 stars, then Gladiator is it.
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Summary: Gets better with every viewing
Review: I was not immediately taken with this film but after repeated viewings I have become a huge fan. The cinematography is dazzling. Russel Crowe is perfectly cast. The script is well written. To the reviewers below who have pointed to the historical inaccuracies, I simply say..this IS NOT a documentary. Many good films about ancient Rome have taken artistic license to make themselves entertaining. Even PBS' "I Claudius" took such liberties. The imagination required to create a spectacle like Gladiator is justification enough to watch and enjoy. Historical accuracy be damned.
In addition to the many other merits of this film the action sequences are riveting though quite graphic.
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Summary: BEST MOVIE EVER, THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY
Review: What can I say, this is the best movie I have ever seen, when I saw the trailer on t.v I knew it was going to be a box-office hit at least, but when I saw the movie, just for the first scene, the Battle, I knew this was the best movie of the year and the best movie yet. I saw it on the premiere and not many people believed my comments, but afterwards most of my relatives and friends agreed with me, this is a G R E A T movie, for years we had been expecting, or at least I had been expecting a great movie, and after the Titanic disappointment, I though it would never come, but oh boy Ridley Scott did a terrific job in accomplishing this, making a both emotional and exiting and visually alluring film, then he went on an made another amazing movie, Hannibal, not as great, but sure a great movie to spend 2 hours and 20 minutes of your time watching Anthony Hopkins do what he does best, be Hannibal "the cannibal" Lecter. But lets talk Gladiator, Russell Crowe is great, no wander he won the Oscar for his performance, I would have lost all my respect to the award if he didn't. Joaquin Phoenix should and I still complain about it, won the Oscar, sure, Benicio was good, but if you see Phoenix and compare it to Benicio you will see my point, the role of Commodus was much more emotional, had more screen time, the character for me was better and I think played greatly. The rest of the cast is also wonderful, specially the late Oliver Reed, too bad we lost this great actor, he may had won the Oscar for this performance. And the soundtrack is another proof that Hans Zimmer is a genius. To sum up, buy Gladiator, is a great movie, and a great DVD, it has great sound, picture, and special features, a must have. 5 stars are not enough.
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Summary: insulting to anyone who is burdened by knowledge of history
Review: It starts insulting your knowledge right from the first sceene when you hear the Germanians speaking CONTEMPORARY GERMAN, and later a Latin boy (not Hispanic, but the boy supposedly from some spot in the Ancient Roman Empire) speaks perfectly articulated contemporary Lingua Fiorentina - the language of today's Italian national radio and television. Shame on Hollywood. Ignorance and disrespect to the World's cultures and languages made us Americans very bad name in the world. Beside distorting the historical facts, they also distorted many important details of Ancient Roman national character. Roman emperor not being able to kill a rogue military boss ("general??") - come on, they used to kill their own siblings, children and parents and had no trouble doing just that! They were by far not that sensitive to human life as we are now, and they did enjoy these bloody shows, men and women alike. Or a Roman Emperor, a God, fighting a gladiator, a slave on arena? Try to imagine leader of any of today's nation (like a President of the U.S.A. if you wish) calling some thug from some bad street for a public match.. I am aware of at least 3 of the Roman emperors paid with their lives for disgracing their country with ungodly behavior: Caligula, Nero (he came out singing on a Greek festival and the troops revolted instantly, the offender of the Roman pride was displaced and killed) and the very same Commodus who made the very same gladiator joke: he dressed up as a gladiator and killed an ostridge. The hunt after him started immediately and succeeded soon after. Augustus was sincerely worshipped by Greeks and Romans as god, and that's what was expected from the emperor of a great empire: behave like an emperor, like a god. These blunders alone invalidate the whole plot and nothing is left after that. (...) if you sort the reviews "lowest rating first" you'll see long list of more and more blunders like that.
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Summary: The Glory of Rome
Review: In this epic recreation of ancient Rome , director Ridely Scott
proves with absolute finality his genius as a film maker of the highest standard! Without a doubt the movie event of 2000.Five Academy awards including best actor for leading man Russell Crowe
should leave one in no doubt as to the sheer depth of acting talent on display in this film! A film of such scale deserves
an equally action packed DVD! and yet again Dreamworks have delivered with 2 discs jammed full of extra features. Every aspect of the film is covered from the brilliant soundtrack to
unused scenes and everything in between! Simply a must have!!!!
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Summary: An Excellent Movie--You must own this!
Review: This movie is about a general in the Roman army who, because he is the favorite with the Ceasar, is targeted by the Ceasars son after the Ceasars death. He returns to his home to find it destroyed and his family dead. He is captured by a slaver who specializes in Gladiator fighting and Crowe (Maximus) becomes a Gladiator who eventually comes face to face with his enemy....
This is a great movie that I think you will enjoy and I absolutely love the costumes.
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Summary: In addition to being a great movie, this is a great DVD
Review: I don't think I really need to review the movie as much as I should review the DVD itself. This is an amazing, engrossing, and brilliant film. Not since the earlier years of celluloid and such collossal cornerstones like ET, Titanic, and Star Wars has a film redefined the term epic. If you've never seen it, you have no idea what a true film experience is. I'll just leave it at that! "...Are You Not Entertained??!" With this said, I'll move on to my review of the DVD. In spite of the fact that attending a film at a theater doesn't really compare to home viewing (although with today's technology, it's arguable), this DVD is a treat that I didn't get when I experienced the film on it's original theater run. "...on my mark, unleash hell!" First of all, the extras are what I call "extra extras". There are hours of REALLY interesting content. From the cute diary of the kid, to historical presentations of costumes, gladiators, and culture, to behind the scenes footage and deleted scenes, the extras really deliver. To be honest, you could spend a whole afternoon JUST watching them...without losing interest or having the film ruined for you. "...go to them..."
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