After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people.

I’m kind of glad that my personal level of procrastination (my dedication to Dilbertus Procrastinus, though this particular god is Greek and not Roman.) didn’t take me to the friendly neighbourhood cinema because let’s face it Gladiator 2 is a sequel in name only, a faux sequel and a giant middle finger to the 2000 movie directed by Ridley Scott most notably the scene when Maximus finds the bodies of his dead Wife and Son. There are supposedly two abandoned screenplays for potential that probably would have made for better movies then what was delivered. I’d like to think that given the scope of his career a filmmaker of the calibre of Ridley Scott would have understood that vital points for the plot of any sequel are only truly viable if they are firmly established in the original something that definitely did not happen with the alleged love story between Maximus and Lucilla in Gladiator, which I felt was a giant middle finger to Crowe’s performance when Maximus returned to his farm. Denzel Washington gave a decent enough performance but I felt that he was a little out of place in a historical movie like Gladiator. The Naval battle in the colosseum certainly was grander then anything from the 2000 movie but it wasn’t enough to save this lazy piece of filmmaking.