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- [New] | Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: Gladiator II’ is a worthwhile sequel thanks to dazzling set pieces and a Big Denzel Washington performance
- [New] | Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …director Ridley Scott returns twenty-four years after his Oscar winning gladiator movie with a film full of spectacle and violence that feels very much a faded echo of the first.
- [New] | Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Excerpt: A movie that’s going to be inevitably described by a legion of dads as “not as good as the first one,” in large part because it constantly steps back from inhabiting the same zone of simplistic emotional satisfaction: it’s not a “one man against the system” movie, but a “everyone is the system, so take responsibility” movie.
- [New] | Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: History repeats itself—and so do sequels. Yet another that rehashes the original’s narrative arc without recapturing its humanity or soul.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II is a beast of an audio-visual experience, best taken in on the biggest IMAX screen you can find. But its convoluted plotting and mimicry of its predecessor make it merely serviceable—and ultimately forgettable.
- [New] | Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: “Gladiator II” doesn’t quite live up to its predecessor’s standards. Achieving that was an unenviable, almost impossible task. However, Scott has done everything he could to at least develop a sequel worthy of that 2000s classic.
