He is well supported by a varied cast, including Connie Nielsen who makes a very sultry and alluring love interest. Crowe is a revelation here - I hated him in VIRTUOSITY, but his acting is excellent and finely judged, right up there with the brooding intensity of De Niro or Pacino. Russell Crowe comes out of nowhere to give us a powerful, sensitive action hero, able to emote without the use of dialogue, delivering his lines when needed with a gruff British accent. For once, the acting is totally flawless. GLADIATOR is pure, old-fashioned escapism, nothing less. Due to the fact that this film was hyped up incredibly, it doesn't actually live up to the hype, but nothing could have done. Forget any of the other CGI-laden rubbish filling out the multiplexes, this is a film which simply has to be seen at the cinema - or alternatively on a very big television screen indeed.
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Until then Gladiator and The Fall Of The Roman Empire will do nicely.Īn epic, awe-inspiring movie which thankfully shows us that Hollywood hasn't forgotten how to make good movies anymore, this is a film which has it all, from intrigue to suspense to violence to subtle romance. Maybe the real Commodus story will get a film one day. Gladiator is a well put together drama and Crowe and Phoenix have quite an acting duel. Sharp film fans will seeīits of both Ben-Hur and Spartacus woven into the story. Gladiator won for Best Picture and Best Actor for Russell Crowe and also won for costume design, special effects, and best sound. In I Claudius dreams of reestablishing the republic. Derek Jacobi plays a senator and as he did Gladiator marks he farewell film of Oliver Reed who plays the head of the gladiator school who trains Crowe. Crowe is sold off in bondage, but works his way back to Rome to take Phoenix down. In this film when Joaquin Phoenix learns that Richard Harris as Marcus Aurelius plans to name Russell Crowe one of his best fighting generals as his successor he kills Harris and Crowe's family. He did in fact love the Coliseum and did like to participate occasionally as is shown in both films. In real life he was strangled by a wrestler who was part of a conspiracy. Commodus was only a teen when he became Emperor in 180 AD and reigned a lot longer than it seemed in Gladiator. Although I loved Christopher Plummer in The Fall Of The Roman Empire, truth be told Joaquin Phoenix is closer to the real Commodus. Mann film and in the Ridley Scott film Connie Nielsen. Both have a sister working against him Sophia Loren in the In the Mann film it's Stephen Boyd in this film it is Russell Crowe. Neither film got the story right, both have him killing his father andīoth have him with a hero/rival. His problems succeeding his legendary father, Emperor/philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Still, it's well worth seeing.ģ5 years after Samuel Bronston and Anthony Mann gave us The Fall Of The Roman Empire, Ridley Scott told the same tale of the Emperor Commodus and But it lacks the humanity and truth that would have made it even better. So what you are left with is a WILDLY exciting film-a true spectacle. Simply put, the human side to the film is stilted. His grief at the crucifixion of his family sounded LESS emotional than it should have-like he was upset that the commissary forgot to but cheese on his burger-not like a man grief-stricken with loss. There was often no emotion other than rage or boredom from Maximus, for example. After the film, I read through the IMDb trivia and noticed that the actors ALSO hated the dialog and much of it was changed.though in my opinion, not enough of it was changed. Too often, folks talks as if they were making speeches or delivering lines in a high school play. In addition, at times I felt as if the dialog was just awful. It bears only a very superficial semblance to the facts and it's a shame, as the true story of Emperor Commodus would make for an exciting film. As a retired history teacher, I know that much of the history shown in this film is wildly inaccurate. If you look at my summary, however, I say that the film is a bit disappointing as well. You really have to see this film and it will knock your socks off. And, with some spectacular stunts and TONS of blood, it is brutal-but spectacularly brutal.
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I saw a documentary about how they made this film long before I saw the actual movie and it's amazing to see how they used CGI to construct an enormous FULL stadium even though most of it wasn't real! The costumes, props, chariots and trappings were also gorgeous-as good as anything you'll ever see in a film about ancient Rome.
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