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Summary: Style-to-burn serves simple story
Review: Huge, high-tech updating of a classic Hollywood formula -- the all-but-dead sword-and-sandal epic -- is entertaining as all get-out despite its length and its occasional pretentious touches. Roman commander Maximus travels from success on the battlefield to exile and humiliation, and self-redemption as a gladiator par excellence. Great cast (esp. Russell Crowe, who gives a potentially cardboard character real gravity), and truly jarring action sequences, but the hollow spots in the story show do show through on repeat viewings. Bizarre progressive-shutter effects during fight scenes may either induce mesmerism or motion sickness.
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Summary: Great respect for not losing the sight of the main idea....
Review: This was one of the best movies i have seen for one simple fact. From beginging to end the director never lost the guiding principle behind the Russel Crowes characters motives. As it was in the begining as it was in the end the motivation for all his actions and decisions remained the same, they did not get lost within layers and layers of useless conotations and sub-plots...like most movies today which try and be "deep" and filled with meaning; however, far to often they choke on their own bad writing and unbelievability. This movie showed more depth and meaning by staying with one guideing principle and i loved it!
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Summary: BEST of Summer 2000!
Review: Gladiator was one of the best films I saw all summer and definitely one that will be added to my DVD collection! The movie represents the time they were shooting for and has really great effects. The battle scenes themselves are worth purchasing, especially with all of the extra footage and bonus disc! Buy it now!
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Summary: Movie of the year
Review: YOU NOW FOR SECENT I LIVE KUWAIT AND WE DONT RELASE MOVIES FAST IN CINMASE. WENE IWAS READING THE NEWS PAPER I SAW THE BEACH AND GLADITOR I DIDNT SEE INSIDE HOLLYWOOD SO I THOGHT THAT GLADIATOR SUKES AND THE BEACH IS GREAT BUT I WAS WRONG IT WAS THE OPPISTE IT IS MY OPPINON THAT I THOGHT THAT IS GLADIATOR IS BEETER THAN BRAVE HEART GLADIATOR HAS DRAMA ACITON LOVE IT ROCKS ONE OF MY BEAST MOVIES
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Summary: Gladiator
Review: Gladiator is a movie that grips you and inspires the audience. I am not a person who goes to the movies frequently. Even a good movie I seldomly see more than twice on the big screen (Saving Private Ryan was a two-fer), but Gladiator I was draw to three times. Russell Crowe did a fantastic job establishing his charactor. He commanded respect and admiration because he was so humble and sincere, yet extremely skilled and courageous as a soldier. The cinematographing was well done and the battle scenes and story line gripping. Historically, it takes some liberties here and there. The biggest weakness of the movie is Maximus' transition from fugitive to slave, but other than that, Gladiator is a movie you'll walk away from thinking about your own moral fiber.
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Summary: Best Movie of The Year
Review: I went and saw this movie when it came out during the summer. I was not expecting too much out of it because everyone was talking about the graphics. So I went to check it out and the computer animation was great, but *gasp* there was actually a plot. I could not believe it. Who would have ever imagined good graphics and a plot together? I will be very disapointed if this does not receive best movie of the year!
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Summary: Amazing Crowe and action
Review: Russell Crowe has a definite presence on the big screen and he makes Gladiator his own as Maximus, a general in ancient Rome. Beginning with an impressively staged battle in Germany, Crowe embodies this warrior with his whole being. The favorite of Richard Harris' Caesar to take over Rome, Crowe refuses, and ends up as a slave whose only existence is to fight in the arenas, where most of the warriors die very young deaths. Maximus sees this as his chance to redeem himself.Besides Crowe's terrific performance, Harris and the late Oliver Reed, as Profumo, Maximus' master, deliver wonderful performances. The special effects are amazing as well, from the battle and action sequences, to the renderings of the Colosseum and ancient Rome. Gladiator is a top-notch action film, and one that signals Russell Crowe as a major star on the rise.
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Summary: Gladiator
Review: Where do I start when there is so much to tell about Gladiator, the best roman epic ever! One can start with its biggest start Russell Crowe, who in my opinion has instantly established himself into a premier Hollywood ICON with his role as "Maximus the great." His role is so intense that it commands respect and well desired. Everything from the visuals to the fright scenes is unmatched ever. Watching this movie is like taking a time machine back to ancient Rome in a time of lost greatness and chivalry. Without a doubt, Gladiator is a must see.
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Summary: Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!
Review: Simply GREAT! One of the best movies I've ever seen. If you liked BRAVEHEART, this is your movie. Great script, great actors, THE BEST soundtrack. You will hate the bad guy. You will love the good guy. Phoenix and Crowe, I don't know who deserves the Best Actor award. Hard to decide. As another reviewer said, 5 stars is not as much as this movie deserves! TEN STARS FOR GLADIATOR
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Summary: The Biggest Come- Down Yet!
Review: The great Roman General Maximus (Russell Crowe) has once again led the legions to victory on the battlefield. The war won, Maximus dreams of home, wanting only to return to his wife and son; however, the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) has one more duty for the general - to assume the mantle of his power. Jealous of Maximus' favor with the emperor, the heir to the throne, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), orders his execution - and that of his family. Barely escaping death, Maximus is forced into slavery and trained as a gladiator in the arena where his fame grows. Now he has come to Rome, intent on avenging the murder of his wife and son by killing the new emperor- Commodus.
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