The movie Gladiator II came out Thanksgiving week last year, a full 24 years after the original, and might as well have been called Gladiator: The Next Generation. It lacked both the originality of the first movie and Russell Crowe. But audiences flocked to theaters to see it, which proves that after 24 years, you can release the same movie again because no one cares about the first one. They introduced novelty into the story by making some characters and scenarios extra bizarre, whether that's historically accurate or not, because historical accuracy doesn't win awards or sell movie tickets. Besides all that, the highlight of Gladiator II was the villain, played by Denzel Washington, who stole the show for himself. And it has plenty of the violence that audiences crave. Screen Junkies pulls apart Gladiator II so you can decide after all this time whether it's something you might want to watch.
This was one of The Stupidest movies I've ever half-paid attention to.
I. Was. Not. Entertained.