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Customer Review
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 December 2024The film, after many prejudices, doubts and preconceptions having seen and re-seen the first memorable blockbuster Gladiator I, which put me in an attitude of skepticism for the success of this sequel, I must say is unexpectedly enjoyable and even if in some parts it becomes paradoxical. In short, the crazy baboons that bite, worse than lions, the riding of the rhinoceros but above all the sharks in the Colosseum. The historical reality was less exaggerated on these points but not entirely inferior to the cinematic fiction. The crowd in the Colosseum was truly impressive and the naval battles in the Colosseum are real. The emperors portrayed in the film are caricatures but they were not entirely distant from reality. I found this Gladiator II great, with a good pace. Instead of Paul Mescal I would have taken Aaron Taylor-Johnson however Mescal does a great acting part as does Pedro Pascal. While Denzel Washington is extraordinary and deserves an Oscar. What I would have changed the actors who played the emperors Geta and Caracalla. Probably the figure of Macrinus deserved to enter a third title and with a greater dilation of the events. Denzel Washington could have very well entered in Gladiator III and had more space and more relevance to the historical events.
A beautiful great film and we await the special steelbook edition and of course the third film.
