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Are Critics Entertained By Gladiator II?
Everyone is comparing Ridley Scott’s sequel to his Oscar-winning original.
Director Ridley Scott’s long-gestating sequel, out now, brings viewers back to the Colosseum with a new cast that includes Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, and even some historically questionable sharks. Very few directors working today can put across a movie like Gladiator II as convincingly, which perhaps explains why the sequel — for all its barbaric violence and the plaintive, at times stirring, discussions about justice and democracy — doesn’t have the mournful quality that the first film did. “In terms of brutal spectacle, elaborate period reconstruction and vigorous set pieces requiring complex choreography, the sequel delivers what fans of its Oscar-winning 2000 predecessor will crave — battles, swordplay, bloodshed, Ancient Roman intrigue.
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