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Gladiator (2000)

R 05/05/2000 (US) Action, Drama, Adventure 2h 35m

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What we do in life echoes in eternity.

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In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is set to be executed. He escapes, but is captured by slave traders. Renamed Spaniard and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus must battle to the death with other men for the amusement of paying audiences.

David Franzoni

Screenplay, Story
Ridley Scott

Director
John Logan

Screenplay
William Nicholson

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Russell Crowe

Maximus Meridius
Joaquin Phoenix

Emperor Commodus
Connie Nielsen

Lucilla
Oliver Reed

Proximo
Richard Harris

Marcus Aurelius
Derek Jacobi

Gracchus
Djimon Hounsou

Juba
David Schofield

Falco
John Shrapnel

Gaius
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A review by John Chard

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Written by John Chard on August 10, 2014

They said you were a giant. They said you can crush a man's skull with one hand.

Ridley Scott's Gladiator is not a perfect film, I would think that the hardiest of fans, of which I'm firmly one, know this deep down. Yet just like Commodus in the film is keen to point out that he himself has other virtues that are worthy, so does Gladiator the film. Enough in fact to make it an everlasting favourite of genre fans and worthy of the Academy Award acknowledgements it received.

In narrative terms the plot and story arc is simplicity supreme, something Scott and Russell Crowe have never shied a... read the rest.

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