Gladiator Reviews
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Three Movie Buffs
Gladiator is a movie that while watching, you can enjoy; for a while.
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| Original Score: 2/4
eFilmCritic.com
If a gladiator film doesn't work as spectacle or as bloodthirsty action, what's left? Drama? It's dead on that level, too...
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| Original Score: 2/5
Combustible Celluloid
Is this thrilling to anyone?
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Filmcritic.com
There's something Jerry Springeresque about Gladiator.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Nick's Flick Picks
Even when Gladiator turns nonsensical, and even when its effects shots aren't persuasive, it's hard to look away, and its 154 minutes flew by.
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| Original Score: C+
SPLICEDWire
While Gladiator is nothing if not stimulating and richly visual, director Ridley Scott's sense of grandeur is inconsistent, and he often over-reaches in his attempts to modernize the storytelling for MTV audiences.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
ToxicUniverse.com
The political intrigue subplot feels tacked on and dull, the film is entirely too long for a simple revenge melodrama...and the structure mercilessly follows its predictable pattern...
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| Original Score: 2/5
Cinema em Cena
Os inúmeros equívocos históricos poderiam ser perdoados caso o filme de Ridley Scott conseguisse sobreviver ao menos como obra de ficção. Não consegue.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Gladiator suggests what would happen if someone made a movie of the imminent extreme-football league and shot it as if it were a Chanel commercial.
Self-proclaimed 'world-creator' Scott only intermittently obliterates the turgid narrative and mediocre dialogue.
Gladiator pours on the usual Caesar dressing.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
Old School Reviews
Gladiator can aptly be called a typical summer movie, meaning it is mindless and designed for the lowest common denominator.
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| Original Score: C
Looking Closer
Listen to the audience as they leave the theatre. Are they talking about being moved by honor and justice, or going 'wow' at the bloodshed so spectacularly delivered?
| Original Score: C
Cinema Sight
A Roman version of Ben-Hur, Gladiator succeeds on only slightly more levels than it fails.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Matinee Magazine
It's almost like [Scott]'s trying as hard as he can to make the worst movie of all time.
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| Original Score: F
Film Quips Online
...One of those technically superlative, appallingly expensive, loud, sweeping, 2 1/2-hour-long epics with lots of grit and bloodlust but very little soul.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Christian Science Monitor
While Crowe's acting is certainly more subtle than most of the brouhaha around him, he has little chance to display the affecting humanity that's one of his chief assets.
Gladiator is a canned experience, a film that flails around awkwardly trying to find a reason to exist.
Gladiator doesn't have enough plot to be a Roman epic ... and too much plot to be a summer action movie.
