"The prequel as an excuse for franchise extension has become such a cliché it's generated its own genre of online joke... Gladiator 2...comes off as less a reinvention of the original than a curiously literal retread of its plot beats."
"Scott, still an active and relevant filmmaker at the age of 86, isn't returning to this material to cash in... now seems interested in turning his attention to power and corruption in Imperial-era Rome."
"At heart, Gladiator 2 is more a drama of palace intrigue than it is an action movie, even if Scott serves up a Roman-banquet-size surfeit of sword-clashing, shield-smashing, and helmet-bashing."
"the advance of CGI has made those elaborate spectacles both less plausible and harder not to snicker one's way through: Did we really need the full-on naval battle inside the Colosseum?"
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