| Show More of the same : waddles through this film playing his character like a old nhd it grows old quickly ' All in all “Gladiator" delivers however the weaknesses arc enough to keep one from paying full price See it on the big screen hut hit a matinee or wail for it to reach the discounts 'Gladiator deserves big screen aximus (a great general in the Roman Army) is promised the mantle of leadership by the current Emperor Marcus Aurelius following his eminent death He is promised this over the Emperor’s son Commodus Aside from the fact his name means toilet Commodus has a real problem with well everyone in his life He takes his father's decision rather personally Like all bad things we do in life this decision comes back to bile him in the heinie " M : ' plus to this production is Hans Zimmer's (“The Lion King” ) IN THE beautiful score augmented by Lisa Genard's (British Goth band Dead Can Dance) soaring vocals (Confession: I never do this but I bought the soundtrack on the way home from the theatre) There are pluses before the camera too All but a few of the with performances are top-nota few especially worth noting Heading this list is recent Oscar nominee Russell Crowe (The DARK Insider" “LA Confidential") With every film he just gets better He offers a character without allowing it to become maudlin Crowe makes and Shades of “Ben-Huare seen “Spartacus" throughout Ridley Scott's (“Alien") newest it worthwhile summer fare “Gladiator" There are some things about this film J Another strong performance is that are new but unfortunately turned in by Oliver Reed : (“Oliver!") He was delivering they lend to be distracting Most of what Scott does here the best performance he had in we've seen before He has years when he died of a heart shown his penchant for dark vioattack just prior to finishing the film He stands out as second lence in just about everything he has done before Here he takes it only to Crowe here In a fine performance given to a different level which tends to make the film look too much his limited time on screen1 like a video game destroying Richard Harris (“A Man Called the reality he sets up Horse") is Marcus Aurelius ' y One other problem is Scott's Harris is spectacularly is the here Part a of pace problem offering strong dichotomy to his overuse of the patented Crowe's intense Maximus One o as more worth noting is Connie "Ridley Scott Super multi-layer- r" ed Shit Slo-M- call ii up already we get the idea! 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