Reviews

Kind of a Hogan's Heros without the most obvious low brow comedy.

Sylva Koscina is enchanting as the countess... Yummy eye candy in a movie full of men.

I'm looking forward to seeing it again, it's been many years.

Kind of a fun movie.

A fairly bloodless 'war' movie.

More of a comedy, somewhere between 'The Great Escape' and 'Hogan's Heros'.

Fun, goofy, and serious both...

The Italians are running the POW camp... instead of the Germans.. at the time the Italians are about to capitulate to the Allies during WWII.

Loved Russell Crowe as the lead.

In fact, he was so good here... I wonder where he's went to when he is not performing quite at this level in some of his later works.

Overall, 'Gladiator' is entertaining, if a bit bloody... which isn't gratuitous... though definitely present.

Connie Nielsen holds her own while adding a visually beautiful counter point to the blood and grizzly guts.

If you like the genre, and haven't seen the film, it is riveting to watch and spectacular in it's scope.

Definitely worth seeing... if you don't mind the gore.