Based on 166 votes and 58 reviews
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absolutely horrible, the worst high cost movie made in 20 years. It's full of DEI actors, unhistorical or even interesting story lines, just plain garbage all the way through. I wouldn't even DL is for free.
I have been to see Gladiator II four times since November of last year, and have enjoyed it every time! While it’s not historically accurate, it does a great job as an epic film, following up from Gladiator, with Paul Mescal as the adult Lucius, who comes to terms with himself and his great civic responsibility due to lineage as well as with the extremely inhumane nature of Rome itself. In my opinion, the film’s recreation of Rome and the Coliseum are superb, among other fine scenes, so please go, enjoy, and be entertained! 🍿
It's missing Russell Crow. Denzel is good. It's not totally bad but the end is dumb and stupid.
I thought it a worthy sequel to its forerunner. Denzel was great bringing an underhanded villain. I enjoyed the kinks back to the original as well. I may just see it again.
This was a very good movie! We enjoyed the whole movie from start to finish! The ones that put 1 or 2 stars are probably liberals ! They need to go see a movie that was was terrible, then go see the unrealistic “ Homestead “ movie! They could have made Homestead a lot better with more action!
Absolutely terrible! Uses historical names as if they threw them all up in the air on paper slips and if they landed on a certain square, they were in. So stupid and boring that we laughed all the way through at the idiocies, like waiting for your opponent to get back up, twirling around like little girls with frilly dresses..in a fight. And the baboons! Idiocy. You can see the real people all say 1 star. The bots all say 5.
I just don't know what these studios were thinking. It's so bad.
It’s hard to beat the first one, but this movie was really very good. The four of us enjoyed it.
This sequel has to go down as one of the worst all time, boring and without any real story line. Subpar acting coupled with the excessive movie length, makes it almost unwatchable! Save your money and pass on this lemon.
It's a movie to see on the big screen. Better than most that Hollywood is putting out these days.
Yes, this was a long movie, but the three of us enjoyed this movie to the end!
Never have so many spent so much on so little for so many
Dumb ending but leading up to it was excellent.
Held my interest for a few hours. Lead guy was cute. Loved Denzel acting bad.
Im shocked that Ridley Scott made this film. The script was as if a child wrote it. The first Gladiator was one of my all time favorites. This was so unbelievably corny. It made me legitimately concerned for the future of the film industry.
A sequel we didn't need.
Nice Touch using monkeys and a rhino in the gladiator fights. Did they really do that? Google says, "Hunters, not gladiators, would be put in the arena to hunt down animals like monkeys and rhinos." So they stretched the imagination. Very creative.
Good show for a second chapter to an excellent show. It's a follow up story. The lead actor was not bad but I miss Russell Crow. The first movie had a great soundtrack which I own. This one used parts of it which was fitting but I didn't hear anything new. Denzel is a great bad guy. Too bad they killed off all the women.
On par w original Gladiator. Denzel was great evil man. Fun to watch. My husband and I really enjoyed it. Actors belonged n their rolls. We will see it again.
Awesome filmimg
Worst movie of the year. Extremely boring.
Just as good as the first one. I'm going back to see it for the 2nd time htis weekend - that's how good it is.
must see
Desperately unoriginal, horrible script and acting. Retire Denzel, you look bad. National Lampoons Gladiator !! and sharks ?? wtf
The previews looked good - I was skeptical because first one was gonna be hard to beat - but this one was just as good if not better and I'm going to go see it again.
By no means is it better than the first one but that's usually how it goes. However the fight scenes were done well. It's more predictable but then comes with a twist which was cool. It's a solid good movie 7.7/10 for me. Misses some of that emotional element but Denzel is masterclass in this as well!!
Unnecessary movie. It's basically Gladiator all over again. Main guy seems too soft. Story makes little sense. The emperors are ridiculous. Sucked.
It didn't need to be this long. Hated the ending. Some of the scenes were beyond the realm of possibility like fighting atop a rhinoceros or flooding the colesseum with sharks in the water! I'm really surprised they got Denzel Washington to be in this. I should have saved the money and waited for Netflix. We got there early to get good seats. Only 8 people in theater!
Wicked beat out this dumb movie. So funny.
I could only hope it wasn't a let down after seeing the Great First one. I was not disappointed. This one met all my expectations and then some. Was just as good as the FIRST ONE.
no sense of story line....just a bunch of running jumping bleeding nonsense .Save your money....
Loved the way they worked the original into the GII. The movie's acting exceeded all expectations!
Lots of studio reviews. This movie is no way 5 stars. Wicked beat them...LOL.
Boring movie.
I'd give it more than 5 stars if possible. Denzel is the greatest actor and the plot to this movie was remarkable. I didn't think it could match first one but I was wrong - Just as good IF NOT BETTER. Loved, Loved this movie. will go see it again for the pure joy of it.
Enjoyable, but the last 45 minutes or so was a bit disappointing. Really felt like you were back in roman times (cuz i know what that's like). Liked the lead actors, but thought the lead actress was a bit weak
The movie from start to end was very entertaining and tied in well to the first Gladiator movie. I'm not sure where all these negative movie reviews are coming from. I thought Denzel Washington played a superb villian and Pedro Pascal did a great job of acting as well. Thought the shark scene was far fetched as how could you get that water into the Collesium
To those sayi g the first review is fake, it is not! I wrote it, and yes, I give Gladiator II 5 stars. I saw the movie in Brazil. It opened internationally 2 weeks before it opened in Canada and the US. What's wrong with people nowadays? If someone writes a glowing review because they absolutely loved a movie, people think it's fake. If someone writes a 2-word, 1 star review, people think it's real. Maybe there should be a mandatory IQ test required before a review is accepted? The 1 star reviews do seem to be fake, and writen out of spite. The haters need to grow up!
Don't pay attention to the bad reviews.... This was an awesome movie.