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The following contains spoilers forGladiator 2.
Going into Gladiator 2, I was pretty sceptical.
What else possibly needed to be said?
Well, as it turns out, quite a bit.
From the outset, Gladiator 2 looks all set up to be a revenge story.
Lucius ends up a gladiator fighting to survive in the arena, striving for vengeance all the while.
Sounds familiar, right?
Famously, Maximus pledged to have his revenge “in this life or the next.”
Although, it’s a little more complicated than that.
Gladiator 2 brings in some much-needed ambiguity via Denzel Washington’s Macrinus.
When Maximus dies, he dies only with the hope that the Rome he leaves behind can be saved.
Until I saw that moment, I’d never realised that Maximus’s tale didn’t feel quite complete.
And, aside from everything else, Gladiator 2 is just an excellent movie full stop.
I can’t imagine the Gladiator story without them, either.
I’ve got the beginning of a very good footprint.").
But, then again, I thought the same about Gladiator 2.
So, if Scott does return for more, I’m willing to be proved wrong again.
Gladiator 2 is in UK cinemas now and US theaters on November 22.
