Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal also star in the sequel that brings superb spectacle and storytelling in equal measure.
“What we do in life echoes in eternity.”
If that’s so,Ridley Scottis surely among those whose name will be etched in stone.
Paul Mescal in ‘Gladiator II’.Paramount Pictures
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His foil comes inDenzel Washington’s Macrinus, a former slave turned master of gladiators.
All of this is cast against an epic spectacle that harkens back to 1950s and ’60s sword-and-sandal flicks.
Give me more movies that use quoting Virgil as a foreshadowing equipment!
Denzel Washington in ‘Gladiator II’.Paramount
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Victory may be hard-won, steeped in blood and violence, but itispossible.
Watching that transformation is breathtakingly exciting, particularly as he gradually assumes the mantle of Maximus Commodus.
Fred Hechinger, Pedro Pascal, and Joseph Quinn in ‘Gladiator II’.Paramount Pictures
Joseph Quinn in ‘Gladiator II’.Paramount
