Gladiator 2 (now with spoilers)

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Just got out of watching it. It was the mystery movie at our theater tonight. Excellent movie. Not quite as good as the 1st but still a great movie. Lots of call backs to the original. A few scenes had you shaking your head. I thought it might parallel the 1st(and it did some) but it I really like the direction it went.

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I probably don't plan on seeing this in the theater so spoil this....how did Lucius not know that he was the heir to the throne and how did Lucilla not recognize her son?

There's already a pretty good cam version out there for it.

Thought it was over the top silly for most of the fighting and felt like it tried way to hard to make Lucius like Maximus despite not having any where near the same motivation that Maximus did. The emperors were laughably bad.
I expected better, well let me rephrase that, I hoped it would be better.

I don't know why but the casting from the previews makes it feel like a b movie. The emperor looks like a gay methhead, denz meh, the main guy nothing special. Hopefully the story is good but I'm not that excited about a movie i feel like i should be

I thought the story was rather terrible in how they tried to give Lucius a reason to be so angry and vengeful, and I don't know what the motivation was for the crowd to turn so violent against Rome.

The actor that played Lucius I thought was the only good part of the movie. As I said, the twin emperors were over the top dumb and I just didn't really care for Denzel's character.
They didn't really do a good job at all in showing why anything was happening, it just did.

The movie was just too over the top for me to really enjoy it. The characters, the storylines, and the fight scenes just seemed over done. It felt like if 300 was trying to be Gladiator.



Maybe I'll enjoy it more upon second viewing, which isn't uncommon for me, but I almost don't even care to rewatch it.

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The twin emperors were real and they hated each other.

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That's all fine and dandy, but they were written and acted terribly in this movie.

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A few scenes had you shaking your head.

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Like sharks in the coliseum?

Surprised there were not laser beams attached to their heads too.

This is an abomination of a movie. It sucks at every level. I know going in it was going to be bad, but it's much much worse than I can ever anticipate. It's SyFy channel bad. And honestly it makes me spitting mad how much of a bad product this is in every aspect of the film. I need a beer now

Might want to add spoilers to the title now.

The complaints I've seen say that it's basically a remake. I'm not interested in that

I didn’t think it was that bad. They definitely went over the top with the CGI animals and took extreme liberties with what the Romans actually did in the Colosseum, but I wasn’t really expecting a captivating follow-up to a movie that didn’t leave much room for a sequel.

There was enough for a decent story, but the execution was just off. The Year of the Five Emperors was an actual historical moment that would’ve been a great setting here.

Also I thought it was hard to really care for Lucius because his motivations for hating Rome seemed pretty weak. I would’ve preferred Acacius to be the main protagonist. Denzel was fine.

I’m telling my friends not to expect anything on the level of the original. Basically just go into it to enjoy the nostalgia of going back to Rome.