The following contains spoilers for Gladiator 2.
Going into Gladiator 2, I was pretty sceptical. While the trailers had dazzled me with their awe-inspiring, Colosseum-flooding spectacle, I was privately doubting the necessity of a follow up to one of the best movies of all time. The first Gladiator movie has a definitive ending, bucketloads of emotion, and a place in the pantheon of film history. What else possibly needed to be said?
