Christian Cole

This is a BAD movie. But what is most remarkable is the consistent 4 star reviews from otherwise reputable sources. Empire, The Guardian, et al. What are they smoking? The budget for this movie was $300 million. Three... hundred... million. dollars. The CGI was poor, very poor. The original Gladiator was made for $100 million 24 years ago and it looks infinitely better than this carbuncle of a movie. The opening battle scene looks like a low res battle scene from a early 2000s video game, running on a low spec PC. Throughout the movie the CGI keeps on disappointing. What's going on here? I suspect something fishy. This is Ridley Scott's production team, are they doing the CGI in house and charging this to the studio, but doing a shoddy job and pocketing the difference, hoping no-one notices? Honestly there is better CGI in movies from more than a decade ago, made for a fraction of the cost. Why bother when it looks so poor. I could see pixels! The script was a joke. "Where we are, death is not... where death is, we are not." That's so bad it's funny. And.... in both scenes where the lead (Paul Mescal) says this line, the people he says it to then die.... all of them! If our civilisation collapses any time soon, in a thousand years, future societies studying us will hold up this parp of a movie as a prime example of the decline and fall of our culture.

This movie is terrible. The cop character is baffling, and kind of racist (unclear if that was meant to be the case). Ben Kingsley’s performance is run of the mill, as is the actress playing his wife. The music is bad, and yet unbelievably was nominated for an Oscar for best score. This movie is so bad it’s actually worth watching, as you’ll remain as flabbergasted as I was throughout that this thing received 3 Oscar nominations. Three!

This film is rubbish. Full of clichés, jokes that don’t land, boring characters with no depth, and a script that made me yawn so much my jaw hurt by the time I decided to give up and watch paint dry, which was exhilarating in comparison. The film is bad but it’s reception is worse. The critics all follow each other like sheep. How this thing got 5-star reviews and won Oscar’s, God only knows. A new low point for modern civilisation.