Review of Gladiator (1992) by Ducknation — 24 May 2014

Gladiator is a masterful film from director Ridley Scott the story may be simple but its the performances of the actors that make this movie excel and be considered one of the best movies of all time. Russell Crowe as Maximus was phenomenal and him winning the Best Actor Oscar was definitely a hard choice for me because he was going up against Tom Hanks in Cast Away which also had another amazing performance but him winning was the right choice. Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus was perfect because he did an amazing job for what the movie called for being a big baby with daddy issues he did do a pretty great job regardless of that though but I dont see why people love him so much in this. The action scenes are wonderfully brutal with plenty of gory deaths this movie doesnt hold back for sure. Out of everything though the best part of this movie id have to say is the Score it is simply beautiful I have listened to the it so many times it never gets old its just so peaceful if im having a bad day thats music ill listen to.

Overall I give it a 8.