Gladiator II Shows Us How Legacy Sequels Should Be done
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- [Spoiler Free Review]
24 years after the release of Gladiator, one of cinema's most iconic films, we get a legacy sequel. Now we all have had our fair share of legacy sequels by now, and we also all thought that a sequel to Gladiator wasn't necessary. But... maybe Ridley Scott proved us wrong? Let's talk about it!
After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people.
Director: Ridley Scott
Writers: David Scarpa, Peter Craig, David Franzoni
Stars: Connie Nielsen, Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Matt Lucas, Derek Jacobi
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For the first half of this movie I felt like they were just recreating the first film (Big battle, loss of a loved one, taken as a slave, etc, etc ) with like for like characters; Maximus = Lucius, Proximo = Macrinus, Cassius = "Master of ceremony", to me it even felt like they felt they had to provide twin emperors instead of just 1 so as to not make it the same film.
I then think the second half is where it really differentiated itself, and I did like seeing certain actors returning to play the same characters again.
I know many people have mixed opinions of this film, but as someone who went in with very low expectations I can comfortably say I enjoyed it and would recommend it, but would caveat that it was never going to live up to the first film.
I watched this 4 times in different formats but that is enough. Just wanted to watch the details of the armour, sets, costumes, fighting scenes. The story was meeeh.
The original Gladiator wasn't 16 years ago. It was 24 years ago.
Ah yeah sorry probably didn’t make that clear enough! The film was 24 years ago, but the story of the original gladiator was 16 years ago in the story!
The film is an unapologetic cash grab, completely devoid of thought, might as well be a remake, and like vast majority of remakes, it’s just worse in every aspect.
I’m so tired of “well it wasn’t completely trash therefore it’s good” rubbish. On it’s own G2 is an average film with high budget, not as bad as most modern films, but as a sequel? It’s a travesty, it made maximus’s death completely pointless, he failed, achieved nothing.
Glad he WHAT ???