Gladiator (2000) Critic Reviews
Metascore®:
Based upon 12 Critic ReviewsHighest Rated
- |
- Publications (A-Z)
- |
- Critics (A-Z)
- |
- Favorite Critics
What matters for today's hero is the good fight, and Gladiator KOs us with a doozy.Read the full review
Glorious, a colossus of rousing action and ferocious fun.Read the full review
John Mathieson's widescreen cinematography is magnificent, and the pacing across 2½ hours is well modulated.Read the full review
One extended guilty pleasure.Read the full review
At 2 1/2 hours, Gladiator is a long ride, but it doesn't drag.Read the full review
It epitomizes the kind of high-profile bloodshed we now expect to herald the hazy, lazy, blockbuster-fixated days of summer.Read the full review
Instead of the heat of humanity, what lingers on in the mind is the cool of the computerized effects.Read the full review
Grandiose and silly.Read the full review
Like an aging athlete who knows how to husband strength and camouflage weaknesses, it makes the most of what it does well and hopes you won't notice its limitations.Read the full review
It employs depression as a substitute for personality, and believes that if the characters are bitter and morose enough, we won't notice how dull they are.Read the full review
