Gladiator

by Ridley Scott (Director)

DVD, 2000

Status

Available

Call number

791.43

Collections

Your library, Media

Publication

DreamWorks and Universal Studies (2000), Color, 155 min.

Description

A Roman general refuses to transfer his loyalty to the new Emperor, Commodus. He becomes a slave and then a gladiator, fighting in the Roman Colosseum in defiance of the Emperor.

User reviews

LibraryThing member LisaMaria_C

I loved this film so much I saw it three times in theaters and then naturally bought the DVD. I don't know exactly why I loved this film so much. I won't make a claim it's one of the great films of all time. But I thought Joaquin Phoenix and Russell Crowe were great in their roles, and I loved the

visuals. I loved to play that scene where we first see Rome from above again and again. And let's face it, even though it was horrible as history, I just loved reveling in an epic film with a larger than life hero fighting not just for his life but to restore the republic and liberty with it.

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LibraryThing member comfypants

A Roman general becomes a slave gladiator.

Much of the movie is boring. The first hour or so is slow but promising, but then out of nowhere the main character is captured by a slave trader and it's like a completely different movie. The second movie would have made a great action movie - there's

some very fun, badass fight choreography, and the story is too absurdly simple to justify anything else - but whenever it tries to be more (which is most of the time), it gets extremely hackneyed. The plot is obvious and recycled, the dialog is painfully corny, and the characters feel like they've been re-written by committee.

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LibraryThing member DrLed

When a Roman General is betrayed, and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

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