After standing up to stretch my tired aching legs the scenes of the great battles and leaping tigers still danced in my head. A fitting emotion, as Ridley Scott’s Gladiator is nothing if not a classic case of the guilty pleasure action movie. The special effects were breathtaking, the plot rather predictable but plausible, and the acting overwhelming. All this I realized in retrospect. Yet, there was something immensely enjoyable about this film that prevented me from realizing its faults during the two and a half-hours I was in my recliner.
The movie opened up with a bloody battle. The Romans, led by their skilled and popular general Maximus, portrayed by Russell Crowe, attack Germania, one of the many tribes Rome conquered to
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