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Gladiator II (2024) is an abomination.

Pathetic, absolutely futile cinema, I was convinced for a torrid opening 20 minutes that this putrid imitator was an AI … thing. Embarrassingly, it’s a verbatim rendering of the first one, with an added siege lifted from Game of Thrones season four, episode nine.

In what passes for a story, which is an appropriation of better material out there, characters do and say the most trite things; there is even a rip-off of that scene from Ben Hur (1959) when creepy Jack Hawkins licks his lips at Charlton Heston’s oar action.

It’s a fucking ridiculously stupid, cynical, pointless and rubbish film and I can’t believe it was made.

Why does anyone still have dealings with this director? He needs banned from making movies.

Shite.

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