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Very good!

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Posted aug 10, 2008 9:44 pm pt

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Very good!

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Posted aug 10, 2008 9:42 pm pt

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Masterpiece

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Posted jul 14, 2008 5:44 am pt

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One of the Great Movie in Hollywood... Joaquin is awesome and best in gladiator after joaquin,russel is great...

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Posted jul 11, 2008 10:17 pm pt

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This is still one of my fav movies of all time. The story is well done and the visual is great, not to mention all the action. Now, I do prefer the Extended cut, but the theatrical cut is still a great movie. Russel Crowe plays his role...
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This is still one of my fav movies of all time. The story is well done and the visual is great, not to mention all the action. Now, I do prefer the Extended cut, but the theatrical cut is still a great movie. Russel Crowe plays his role perfectly and you can truly feel his pain. Even though his family as basically no screen time, you can feel the losse when they're killed. Even the ending to the film is great, and I think that's on thing many epic type movies fail at is the ending.

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Posted jun 15, 2008 3:03 pm pt

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Crowe described is experience in making this flick as "unrelenting." I don't know if he's normally *given* to understatement, but that it certainly is. The movie is intense & well-crafted from start to finish. Connie Nielsen [+] Read Full Review

Crowe described is experience in making this flick as "unrelenting." I don't know if he's normally *given* to understatement, but that it certainly is. The movie is intense & well-crafted from start to finish. Connie Nielsen
& Richard Harris in particular give excellent supporting perfomances. WELL worth an evening in front of your big-screen!

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Posted mar 15, 2008 9:43 am pt

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This movie comes down to an honorable man and his love for his wife and son. He begins and the Roman northern army general with a close relationship with the Ceasar. The Ceasar chooses the general to take over for him in place of his own son. The...
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This movie comes down to an honorable man and his love for his wife and son. He begins and the Roman northern army general with a close relationship with the Ceasar. The Ceasar chooses the general to take over for him in place of his own son. The son in a jealous rage murders his farmer and commands that the general is murdered too. After both his wife and son and murdered and he close to death he is captured and sold into salvery. He becomes a gladiator known throughout the empire known as the Spaniard. He is able to extract his revenge when in man-to-man combat defeats the Ceasar. This movie is great from the story line, to the action, and the special effects. It also has the tear jearking end when he is reunited with his wife and son.

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Posted feb 9, 2008 12:50 am pt

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Perfect.

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Posted jan 14, 2008 5:15 am pt

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One of the best movies ever made. Russel Crow is amazing. The action is awesome. 5-stars, thumbs up, awesome!!!

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Posted dec 19, 2007 7:48 am pt

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What to say. My favorite epic film.

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Posted jul 26, 2007 11:57 am pt

• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  100
  It's a stunning Roman triumph.

  by Desmond Ryan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film.com
  
  100
  It's that very rare feeling that you're settling into a movie whose individual elements are so finely attuned they fuse into a singular construct of pure entertainment.

  by Ted Fry | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  91
  It lives up to the hype. Gladiator has its creaky moments, but it delivers a particular kind of visceral historical spectacle that movie audiences haven't seen in decades.

  by William Arnold | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  91
  What matters for today's hero is the good fight, and Gladiator KOs us with a doozy.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  90
  Glorious, a colossus of rousing action and ferocious fun.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  88
  If there's a soft spot in your heart for the sword-&-sandal epic -- and from the star rating above, I think you can guess where I stand -- then you'll swoon with giddy delight over Gladiator.

  by Jami Bernard | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  88
  An exhilarating, sweeping epic that begs to be seen on the largest possible screen.

  by Jonathan Foreman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  88
  Has the kind of super-cinematic qualities and bravura acting that make up for almost anything.

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] Mr. Showbiz
  
  84
  Combining a seething physicality with enough weary nobility and tightly checked rage for a dozen wronged heroes, (Crowe) provides the movie's vital center of gravity without looming over his co-stars.

  by Cody Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  80
  One extended guilty pleasure.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
  80
  Quite a good movie--a big, fat, rousing, intelligent, daring, retro, many-adjective-requiring entertainment.

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  80
  John Mathieson's widescreen cinematography is magnificent, and the pacing across 2½ hours is well modulated.

  by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
  75
  As formulaic, but occasionally outré multiplex-bound behemoths go, Gladiator is a foaming beast.

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  At 2 1/2 hours, Gladiator is a long ride, but it doesn't drag.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  75
  Lacks emotional depth and sweep -- but the movie still delivers the type of rousing, large-scale adventure that marked the best films of its kind

  by Rene Rodriguez | Read Full Review »