Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0678149439120
Format: Color
ISBN: 1417057785
Label: Dreamworks Video
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Dreamworks Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-08-23
Running Time: 171
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2000-05-05

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Summary: Ridley Scott's Vision Is Realized In This Epic!!
Comment: I am fascinated by the history of the Roman Empire. That being said I think that Ridley Scott is a genius and that this is by far his best film. In scope alone it leaves an impression. Everything else about this film is perfect from the sets and costumes to the academy award winning performance that Russell Crowe gave as Maximus. This film asks questions that we as a society face every day the questions of right and wrong and what happens after you die. Overall this film is one of my favorites and definitley worth watching. This DVD is loaded with making of documentaries and has a commentary on the extended cut of the film definitley worth a buy!!

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Summary: Great product!
Comment: Great DVD!!! Best movie ever! I also loved all the special features!!! They were two discs that were loaded with special features!!! Overall, it was one of the best purchases I ever made!!!

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Summary: Excellent Movie
Comment: I saw this movie several times and now I wanted to buy it. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Entertainment for Simpletons.
Comment: This film was completely ridiculous. It was completely didactic and lacked any subtlety whatsoever. The good guy was given an "ultra-cool" name: Maximus, and was completely one-dimensional. There weren't any shades of gray to the character at all. The antagonist was made to be a coward, and the film explicitly stated this over and over again for anyone too slack-jawed and brainless to catch it the first hundred times that this was mentioned. He was made completedly foolish: being given the silly name of Commodus and was even made to desire his own sister! The protagonist had his wife and child murdered just like the protagonists of the last 3,406 action movies made. He had a token black friend and a muscle-bound doofus who couldn't be killed until he had a dozen arrows shot through his vital organs and then finally dropped dead looking like a porcupine. There were about a hundred lines of dialogue about how wonderful it is to be courageous, and you have to love the stupidity of the opening battle being won by a cavalry charge through the middle of a dense forest!!!! No wonder the Romans were so powerful! Oliver Reed encouraged Russell Crowe to earn his freedom, when he was his slave-owner and could have let him go at any time!

I suppose if you're looking for some unintentional hilarity this would be the film for you though!

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Summary: One of the best EVER
Comment: Gladiator is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I loved it from start to finish.

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Editorial Reviews:

A big-budget summer epic with money to burn and a scale worthy of its golden Hollywood predecessors, Ridley Scott's Gladiator is a rousing, grisly, action-packed epic that takes moviemaking back to the Roman Empire via computer-generated visual effects. While not as fluid as the computer work done for, say, Titanic, it's an impressive achievement that will leave you marveling at the glory that was Rome, when you're not marveling at the glory that is Russell Crowe. Starring as the heroic general Maximus, Crowe firmly cements his star status both in terms of screen presence and acting chops, carrying the film on his decidedly non-computer-generated shoulders as he goes from brave general to wounded fugitive to stoic slave to gladiator hero. Gladiator's plot is a whirlwind of faux-Shakespearean machinations of death, betrayal, power plays, and secret identities (with lots of faux-Shakespearean dialogue ladled on to keep the proceedings appropriately "classical"), but it's all briskly shot, edited, and paced with a contemporary sensibility. Even the action scenes, somewhat muted but graphic in terms of implied violence and liberal bloodletting, are shot with a veracity that brings to mind--believe it or not--Saving Private Ryan, even if everyone is wearing a toga. As Crowe's nemesis, the evil emperor Commodus, Joaquin Phoenix chews scenery with authority, whether he's damning Maximus's popularity with the Roman mobs or lusting after his sister Lucilla (beautiful but distant Connie Nielsen); Oliver Reed, in his last role, hits the perfect notes of camp and gravitas as the slave owner who rescues Maximus from death and turns him into a coliseum star. Director Scott's visual flair is abundantly in evidence, with breathtaking shots and beautiful (albeit digital) landscapes, but it's Crowe's star power that will keep you in thrall--he's a true gladiator, worthy of his legendary status. Hail the conquering hero! --Mark Englehart