Gladiator II
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Gladiator 2!
Thus, whenGladiator 2was announced, it was clear that it had a high standard to live up to.
Now thatGladiator 2has been released, this question of quality can finally be answered.
The end of Maximus' story perfectly ties these two ideas together, creating the film’s iconic ending.
The originalGladiatoris incredibly self-serious, grounded, and epic.
Gladiator 2, on the other hand, is a lot sillier and weirder than its predecessor.
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However,Gladiatorbeats outGladiator IIjust a bit.
Crowe brought a magnitude and grandiosity to Maximus that Mescal doesn’t capture.
This could be due to Lucius being a more meek character when compared to Maximus' inspirational general persona.
Gladiator 2 is the follow-up to Ridley Scott’s award-winning film Gladiator from 2000. Scott returns to direct the sequel, with Paul Mescal staring as Lucius, alongside Denzel Washington and Joseph Quinn as the villain Emperor Geta. Gladiator 2 had been stuck in development hell for years before a script written by David Scarpa finally moved forward.
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Denzel Washington, however, is the best performance inGladiator II.
