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It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

The movie Spartacus is a great movie about love and struggles. Why struggles you may ask? Because in this film, Sparticus is taken in as a slave along with hundreds of other men (called gladiators) and women who have to fight to the death, just for entertainment of the people in the city. And while in captivity he finds a women who he comes to love and eventually marries. Later in the movie, one day the enslaved men come together one day after getting tired of training day in and day out and fight against the guards, killing them all, and fighting any army that gets in their way, because they want to earn their freedom. The message gets all over the country, and all the enslaved people fight their owners to join Spartacus' army. But in the end the gladiators army begins to fall apart, and that is when their efforts to fight for freedom falls too. Although they finally get their freedom but only a few lived on not including Spartacus's, but his wife and child survived.

hi i'm new here, so i hope that i post that at the right place. i saw that film last thursday in the TV (in austria). i just love it (above all, goran visnjich is really handsome as "spartacus", isn't he?) Today i bought the roman from howard fast: "spartacus" and i'm going to read it immediately. i don't know if the film with kirk douglas is really better than this, because i've read a lot in the internet about people saying the actors act worse and there are too many bloody scenes but i don't think so. i mean, if you saw "troja" with brad pit: THAT'S only about fighting.i'd really recommend it, i think i'll buy it on DVD...greets from austriaalicia

well, i saw this movie before the gladiator, and i never really thought it is such good until i saw the gladiator. I had seen lots of good reviews of the gladiator which is a good movie. but when i saw it, i felt that something was missing. And that was when i remembered the Spartacus. Spartacus - a great story of a slave. It is really inspiring and some moments makes you wanna jump out of chair and kick some ass ;D maybe, it is because this movie is intended to be a POP. In comparing with gladiator, i think it is a little better and leaves a little deeper mark in your soul than gladiator. Gladiator was tried to be made not hack too hard. While Spartacus - no

This movie presents the story of Spartacus a Thracian slave that leads gladiator slaves out of a slave camp at Capua. The battle scenes are great reenactments and they show the brutality of the ancient world.The actor that portrays Marcus Crassus plays the aristocratic stuck up general quite well and his rivalry with fellow senator Agrippa keep the plot moving throughout the entire movie. Not only does this movie show you how these ancient people fought, but it also shows the brutality that the Romans had against there opposing armies. This movie contains all the elements of a good war movie: fighting, rivalries, and romance. Overall this movie is one of my favorites and Goran Visnjic was the perfect guy for the job.