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Gladiator: Movie
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Any movie with Ossie Davis, Robert Loggia, and Brian Dennehy is going to be watchable, and Gladiator is no exception. Unfortunately, this tale of two friends in the underground world of extreme boxing can't quite overcome either its poorly constructed screenplay or the weakness of leading men James Marshall and Cuba Gooding Jr. Of the two, Gooding is better, but Marshall is uniformly poor in the dramatic scenes, though perfectly fine in the action sequences. The film ... trips up by portraying its protagonists as the least likely high school students in America--in fact, everyone attending their school looks well into their mid-20s. When Gladiator concentrates on fight scenes--or when Davis, Loggia, and Dennehy are on screen--it's a more than adequate, though predictable, boxing drama. Overall, it's a disappointment, though not entirely without merit. Approach with low expectations, and you'll be moderately satisfied.
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Hollywood's recent release of the film Gladiator is portrayed to revolve around a true historical story yet is really a fictional tale with a few pieces of truth thrown in for substance. Movies are made to appeal to the masses and the true story is less dramatic than the tale of feuding between evil emperor and a wrongly accused general.
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Gladiator officially kicks off the summer 2000 movie battle in an intense way. The film is flashy, violent, and spectacular, everything a summer movie needs to be. Of course, the story takes its cues from historical events, but the large part of Gladiator is fiction, and does not pretend to be anything else. Gladiator is a movie where the viewer can shut down his/her mind and let the sensory overload take over, all the way to the end of the film.
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