Gladiator (2000)

Release date: 2000-05-05
Country: USA|UK|Malta|Morocco
Language: English
Director: Ridley Scott
Production Co: DreamWorks, Universal Pictures, Scott Free Productions
Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure
Rating: 8.5/10
Length: 2h 35min

Storyline

Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes of the man who will feel his revenge.

Plot Keywords

gladiator, roman empire, mother son relationship, battlefield, combat, slavery, blood, rape, father daughter relationship, stabbed to death, violence, torso cut in half, crucifixion, murder of wife, spear, stabbed in the throat, stabbed in the side, stabbed in the leg, stabbed in the back, stabbed in the arm

Short Review

Russell Crowe solidly anchors this epic-scale gladiator movie - the first in nearly four decades - by using his burly frame and expressive face to give dimension to what might otherwise have been comic book heroics.