Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier are a treat to watch. and the battle scenes are superb, but otherwise this commercial endeavour by Kubrick wasn't his best. It's all right as sword-and-sandal epics go, but it plods compared to Ben-Hur.
This review of Spartacus (1960) was written by Scott M on 23 May 2009.
Spartacus has generally received very positive reviews.
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