"Gladiator II" doesn't try to out-epic the original movie. Instead, it veers more bonkers with a steely Paul Mescal and a ...
Gladiator II” isn’t quite the prestige film that the first one, a best-picture winner, was. It’s more a swaggering sword- -and-sandal epic that prizes the need to entertain above all else.
The film stars Paul Mescal as Lucius, the former heir to the Roman Empire who becomes a gladiator after his home ... The Last Duel and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, and started his career ...
Gladiator was the second-highest-grossing film of 2000 and won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Crowe. Twenty-four years later, Scott returns to the arena of blood and sand ...