It was an amazing film but nothing compared to how good the first one was. The monkey creatures were a bit far fetched and you could tell that the sharks weren't real. It's a bit of an insult on the first gladiator to be honest. There's more emotion in the first film, it all happened too quick to feel any emotion to the characters especially when Lucius's wife died in battle in the start of the film. Putting Matt Lucas in the second film was a weird move as well.