Saw this the other day, great movie, it is strictly in the drama category, don't expect any action or anything like that. Christian Bale is the GOAT as far as I am concerned. This movie could have been garbage, his acting really elevates scripts.
Woody Harrelson is in this too, has he ever not played a scumbag?
Don't understand why it is rated 53% on rottentomatoes.
Look at what one of the fakkits wrote.
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As directed by Scott Cooper, the movie has an undeniable, dour force, but it’s basically conventional macho filmmaking, and it’s extremely violent."
This fakkit also had the audacity to give Gladiator a "rotten" rating.
"In “Gladiator,”Ridley Scott thrusts us so close to the combat that all we see is a lot of whirling and thrashing, a sword thrust here and there, a spurt of blood, a limb severed. There’s hardly a scene that is cleanly and coherently staged in open space. The violence comes mainly from the editing, in the cheapening use of montage. We see this sort of flamboyant mess all the time in the movies, but almost no one complains—perhaps because we have become so accustomed to spatially incoherent movement in commercials and on MTV that it now looks normal..."