“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[Nintex]

Gladiator 2 4/10

Gladiator fucking RULES. I have been maximus decimus meridius twice for Halloween, and I know the speech off by heart, and I am a huge nerd for rome and I love ridley scott and he's from my hometown.

HOWEVER

This was rubbish. 

Paul mescal? Totally miscast, I do not see why everyone raves about him, completely unconvincing.

Denzel? What the fuck was going on here? Is he on meth or something? Did he get a new set of teeth that make him twitch and tweak? Terrible performance but you can see that he thinks it's a genius turn.

Plot was particularly bad. None of it made any sense. Rubbish.

Somehow the gladiator bits kept the film trucking along and it did look nice (aside from the CGI baboons at the start).

I really enjoyed Denzels performance actually. One of the highlights of the film. 

The plot was hit and miss for me. 

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I would've enjoyed it more if the connection to the first film was really just a delusion of the queen to cope with her grief. Which resulted in a string of bad decisions by the rebels for Macrinus to exploit. Would've made it more interesting than him being the son of Maximus after all.