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Summary: Gladiator Stands Alone
Review: Of any movie I have seen, this movie makes you root for the good guy and hope the bad guy bites it more than any other movie. The dipiction of the Roman Empire at that time is exquisite and nowhere else will you see a combination of action and diologue that fit the bill.
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Summary: really good movie
Review: this movie was incredible. great action. very realistic. liked it as much as braveheart
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Summary: Excellence
Review: A superb and convincing acting job by Russel Crowe, well detailed and executed action sequences along with a strong plot and story created an emotional movie succeding that of Titanic and Armageddon combined helped produce the correct recipe for the best movie of the year. A great movie to see whether it is your 4th time or first. (Important note: If you have not seen gladiator yet, GO SEE IT A.S.A.P.)
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Summary: rubbish
Review: this comes from an action fan, and this aint no action film i was expecting something to keep me excited and on the edge of my seat. no way. there are like 4 fighting scences, and admitedlly these are very good but that does not lift the whole film, the dialogue in between these fight scences is laughable, i went to sleep 4 times in the cinema. now some people might like borin "chat" but i dont if a film is goin be based on the talking it should at least be well written like shawshank redemtion but this is borin i repeat borin borin borin. i know a lot of people will disagree with this but then maybe they werent expecting an action fest like it billed. so if u like boring chatter (a lot of) and a fighting (not much of) then buy this but i personally would not buy it. the end of my rant :)
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Summary: Ridley Scott does it again!
Review: Once again Ridley Scott, one of the best directors in modern cinema, resurrects an old and trite genre. He did for Roman epics, what Alien and Blade Runner did for their respective genres. In this movie, he brings the fanatic and edge of your seat excitement that Saving Private Ryan and Braveheart had to the epic roman battles. This film had it all, from a great cast to wonderful cinematography and editing. The only fault I could find was the somewhat anti-climactic ending, but I heard that it was due to some storm that destroyed the sets for the grand epic battle. I wonder if they will shed more light on that subject, but still it was a great movie. It made a star out of Russell Crowe, a great actor who has been in some very good movies, among my favorite, is LA Confidential. The special edition DVD is defiantly worth a look at, I can't wait to buy it!
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Summary: MAXIMUS ,MAXIMUS, MAXIMUS !
Review: Ok, the only thing I could say about this movie besides the name of the hero is: EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING! , WOW!. I am not a gore or epic movie's people, but this let me in total astonishment, it was so real, so great. I am not a movie's specialist, I am just a "watcher",I mean just a movie's fan, and this was great, rome, the colliseum, the battles, the feelings, the drama, the performance. This movie is on it way to the Oscar's, and so are Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe, they really deserve it. I cannot wait to buy my DVD,
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Summary: One of the few good films of the summer!
Review: The critics lovd it, and almost everyone who went to see it at the movie theater i worked at did as well: even I enjoyed it! Gladiator was a film that actually took the heroic plot and turned it into a grand epic, that I would have to compare to my movie going experience when I saw "Titanic" in December of 1997. Russell Crowe plays Maximus Decimus Meridius, a Roman General, who is at the command of Marcus Aurillius, an aging Emperor. While Marcus's son (Joaquin Phoenix) is supposed to be the next ruler, Marcus wants Maximus to lead Rome to a new future. But upon hearing this news, Marcus's son Commodus destroys him, and proceeds to have Maximus killed as well as his wife and son. Maximus survives, but soon finds that he has been enslaved. Wanting revenge for this deed, he uses his skills as a general to make it all the way to the great Colliseum, where he befriend several other gladiators, and with their skills, they triumph in the face of the evil Commodus; but that's not the end of the story;) Mill films does a grand job for a European FX company in relaizing the Colliseum and shots of a city that no longer can be constructed in our world. The shots at times cut short and seem to be filmed on separate kinds of filmstock, but the cinematography is much better than what John Woo did on MI2. On a final note, there isn't as much blood and gore as most would think, but still, if you have children, I caution you to not let them watch this. Even though Maximus is a heroic general and all, be responsible with what your children view.
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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN!
Review: The Best MOvie I have even seen. Great directing and acting! Has everything you want, action, love, romance! It has it all!
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Summary: MAGNIFICENTLY DONE IN ALL REGUARDS
Review: The plot is original in most respects although it is not for the faint of heart. I would recommend it to anyone and everyone as the casting was excellent and the scenery was extremely well designed and chosen. The movie was very well shot. There are only three things that are still bothering me. The first is when Maximus (Russell Crowe) is being brought to the slave market, I thought that the floating effect that they do goes on a bit too long and does not serve any greater purpose. The second is at the end they showed the compputer generated view of Ancient Rome. That "shot" has always bothered me. I felt that it is not needed and is not relavent to the story they told. The story is of the Gladiator and his perils not about Rome at all, other than the fact that it takes place there. The third thing is in the the final battle Maximus is wounded before hand and with a woulnd like he had he would have been much less alert than he was. I understand that they want to show his perserverance but it is not realistic at all. Overall the movie was execellent.
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Summary: Best of the season!
Review: This was the best action film of the summer, the story keeps you interested from the very beginning to the end, I have not seen anything lately comparable to the fight with the charioteers in the circus!
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