Atom User Reviews for Gladiator (2000)

The script by producer David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson is serviceable but not exactly inspired.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Filled with brilliant filmmaking and features outstanding performances, but it's neither profound enough nor pop enough to be great -- it's mournful, serious, beautiful and, finally, pointless.

Manohla Dargis

L.A. Weekly

Lacks emotional depth and sweep -- but the movie still delivers the type of rousing, large-scale adventure that marked the best films of its kind

Rene Rodriguez

Miami Herald