Revenge is a dish best served up by Russell Crowe. Excellent acting, great plot, amazing sets and costumes.

honestly amazing plot and acting. music makes it though.

Pure grit and glory. Russell Crowe brings so much power to the role, and the story of revenge and honor never gets old. One of the most badass historical epics out there.

This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. The story is compelling and it was thrilling from start to finish. I definitely recommend it for medieval and action fans!

This is a must watch. You can't help but feel inspired seeing a man (Maximus) of sheer will and determination overcome adversity to do what he needed to do. The fight scenes are life or death and you'll constantly be on edge hoping that our hero won't get slashed or stabbed by all the swords and spears swinging around. Russell Crowe did a phenomenal job conveying the heartbreak, anger, and courage of Maximus as it's impossible to not cheer for the guy after all that he went through. Joaquin Phoenix also did an amazing job with Commodus. I've never had seen a villain that boiled my blood so much and I was so happy when fell. The ending is bittersweet and a perfect ending to a movie. At the end of the day, it's not about whether we come out alive or not but if we find our peace at the end knowing that we did everything that we could to do. Because when death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back. ∞🤞

PEAK CINEMA. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MOVIE YOU NEED TO CHECK IT OUT😈🥸

While not exactly true to history but some fantastic acting, action, emotion, revenge and death. An epic masterpiece for it's time that still holds up in 2025.

Weird movie which wasn't fun. Just watching it will pretty much disappoint every history fan as myself. But hey, that's just my opinion.

Too long again. Disjointed and uninvolving. Stars for effort - or gallons wasted spilled blood, think Blobbo.

Director Ridley Scott steps up his game here with "Gladiator," with an excellent plot, character development, directing, cast, set design, etc. Scott's direction and storytelling allows the audience to yearn for more and wonder what is going to happen next as they watch each scene.

My number 3 movie for me and the only movie I went to the cinema two times. Joaquin Phoenix pffff, what a actor, but still I find Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington a little bit better. Russel Crowe also very good and Connie Nielsen amazing (very beautiful woman).

Courage! People that were able to watch it in theaters! Love those movies. I still watch it. The older the movie is the harder movies are for the younger generations to get behind. If they enhanced and made 4D it would make a huge difference!

My favorite live action movie

My review is about 25 years late, but Gladiator is a film that never moved me to see it, didn’t move me when I finally saw it, and didn’t move me when watching it for this review. What Gladiator is is an epic spectacle that is the perfect example of what a quality film should look like; a film made for awards, critics, fictitious Roman history buffs, and fans of gladiator movies.

An instant classic. I've watched it countless times over the years, ever since its release. This film made me fall in love with Hans Zimmer's music and turned me into a fan of Ridley Scott (at least up until A Good Year). I even read different versions of the script, which only deepened my understanding of what made this hard-fought film so great. Pure entertainment.

This FILM echoes in eternity... EPIC - GRITTY - INSPIRING - MAGNIFICENT Gladiator is every man's appropriate response to such loss. I'd wake up a gladiator too if I were Maximus. The sheer scale of this film has me in awe. For 2000? Oh yeah. Production design is on another level... can we please make movies like this again??? The visual effects aren't my favorite though. The color grading for the afterlife sequences is too dull, and between the floating heads and the glitchy slow-motion shots feel cheesy, but it's not enough to derail the film. Apparently the Academy loved it though... None of that pulls from the magnificent performances of the cast, notably Crowe. Just... wow. Seeing this, I understand where he pulls that stoic energy from for some of his other roles (Robin Hood, The Water Diviner, Man of Steel, Master and Commander). It's the story and script that are the muscle of this film (though it seems the Academy disagrees on this point as well...). A man... who has lost everything... wife, son, honor, status... and all so horrifically... tossed to the gladiators of Rome to be slaughtered for sport... and we are on the very EDGE of our seats to see... what does he do next? Will he give up? Will he give in to the overwhelming grief that even we can seem to taste... or will he rise up, in the face of every adversity... and fight the very emperor himself to regain his lost honor and restore justice to a corrupt nation? That is the story in every man, even at the simplest level. There is nothing more inspiring than that. The script sets up everything so well to come crashing down, slowly builds up again, sparks hope, then all is lost... creating the perfect conditions to forge a hero. Trust me. You'll understand when you see it. While being heavily masculine, it doesn't lose a single drop of emotion. It's a rollercoaster. Great lines bring some enthusiastic "oh yeah!!!"-moments, while Maximus' loss stabs your heart strings, and victories throughout leave you cheering. Just for laughs...... I saw many other films before seeing Gladiator... so my initial reaction is through this lens: Dumbledore and Robin Hood try to overthrow the Joker as emperor of the Roman Empire.

Wow, just wow, it lasted 20 mins before I hit off, it seemed like a poor tv movie, what on earth

Such an epic masterpiece.. one of my favorite movies

Finally got round to seeing this and I completely understood the hype. This is just a really engaging movie and this is the best performance I have seen for Russel Crowe and the same can be said for Joaquin Pheonix. The battle scenes were just excellent and the story was really good. I'm very much happy I decided to watch it.

Where do I even start? This film is like a Roman feast—swords, sandals, and Russell Crowe dishing out a main course of "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!"First off, let’s dive into the action. The fight scenes are so electrifying And those coliseum battles? Absolute perfection. It’s like WWE, but with more lions and fewer folding chairs. “strength and honor” motto is so motivating that I’ve started using it at the gym. The soundtrack? Hans Zimmer, you are a genius. The music is so grand that I now play it while doing boring tasks like folding laundry or microwaving leftovers. Gladiator is the perfect mix of drama, action, and unintentional comedy (looking at you, Commodus).