Gladiator 2 Review Worthy Successor To The Throne??

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Denzel's performance was out of Training Day's conniving-crook-given-authority Alonzo, especially in finality it appeared like he could've said the lines from Training Day - "You took off my arm, Lucius...I'm the Emperor! I run Rome, you just live here!..." To compare Mescal with Crowe: Mescal's performance was primarily of a farmer, a sometime reluctant defensive fighter (made as such through advances by Rome into the part of north Africa to which he'd escaped as a youth): His rage for what befell his wife drove his gladiatorial spirit, whereas with Maximus it had been primarily as an offense driven general with ambition to settle down as a farmer, then gladiator (driven by similar rage). Maximus was the more skilled and experienced fighter. Thus Mescal's character and performance was apt for his background. Pedro: Needed as the offense driven general Maximus was, holding his ideals, but disillusioned by the two pansy boys running Rome, and the glue which linked Lucius to his previous life. All in all, not as good as the first, but good nonetheless.