Who wouldn’t want to see basically the same thing over again, except with gladiator battles that up the ante to include flooded arenas full of hungry sharks? Anyway, Acacius and Lucilla secretly ...

Worth watching on the big screen, Gladiator 2 delivers from its bone crushing battle sequences and fantasy-like scenes involving great white sharks swimming in the Colosseum. Gladiator 2 has a lot of ...

However, the most elaborate gladiator fight sequence was the staged naval battle with two combatant ships in a pool of sharks, another collaboration with Corbould’s special effects team.

Gladiator 2: Christ Killer opens in the Underworld ... (Scott fills the waters with deadly sharks; Cave opts for “100 alligators.”) Ultimately, the biggest problem with Cave’s script ...

The shark battle might be one of the most entertaining ... Eventually, he’s sold as a gladiator and becomes a leader. He battles with both the baboons and rhinos and conquers them both.

baboon fights and shark attacks during a mock naval battle. More from Variety How 'Gladiator 2' Composer Harry Gregson-Williams Captured the Spiritual Essence of Hans Zimmer's Original Score How ...

Yes there were rhinos, but... According to Professor Epplett, rhinos were present in the Colosseum. “The first rhinoceros to arrive in Rome was at the end of the Republic, just a century before ...

Even so, there is one element in Gladiator II that does strain incredulity: the sharks. In the same much-discussed sequence where Lucius leads fellow slaves into battle against a full-scale Roman ...

And to get a couple of sharks in a net from the sea ... second-century BCE mosaic from Pompeii. The scenes in Gladiator 2 that depict combatants riding rhinos in the Colosseum may be artistic ...

When Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2 arrives in cinemas this week ... When the interviewer asked whether it’s true the battles involved sharks, a point Dr Bartsch particularly criticised, Scott ...