Too much CGI, the shark scene was ridiculous! Stick to lions !! Trying to recreate Gladiator, FAIL. The dialogue wasn't up to scratch, the lead actor was OK, BUT, sorry to disappoint, he was not Russel Crowe, who owned it. The ending was baffling, a hand brushing through weeds of some sort,, trying to recreate Maximus's wife ??? Huh ? This was just OK, but throughout the whole movie all I could think about was the original, so disappointed, tried hard to love it, but ended up thinking why ! Why a sequel, when nothing could supersede the original. Kept looking at the time, I give it 2 stars out of 5, a d that's generous