Amazons and Gladiators

'Historically inaccurate' doesn't even begin to describe this. Nor does 'terrible'.

The only reason anybody's given so far for watching it is the scantily clad young women. Frankly you see as much in a Meat Loaf music video. And the acting's better...

Well, the DVD's cover does a good (but tricky) job. You think it might be a relatively nice movie shot for TV. Like Helen of Troy, Jason and the argonauts, or Odyssey.

But actually, the only reason to see this movie is for the few beautiful, and half-naked women who try to cope with a terrible director and a really bad script and story based on Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Especially the little girl in the beginning acts really bad. It was quite disappointing. I hope some of the actors get a break in the future.

The movie screams it was very low-budget. They must have used except the forest shots, 5 or 6 scenes, most of them in a dressed back-lot.

The worst mistake (except inaccuracies like amazons in the same era with romans) was that everyone is clean. In that period women didn't look like a Playboy centerfold. And people were dirty-looking. They look extremely sharp. Like they took their furs from the laundry! LOL!

Anyway, as I said, if you pass one the beautiful babes, a Xena episode is far more dramatic and action-packed.

I don't regret for my $2 for the DVD rental though. Even B-movies and first-time actors got to make a living.

If you expect a movie like The Gladiator, or Spartacus you will be very disappointed. The two films I mentioned in the former sentence pay a lot more respect to the historical facts. The voice-over in this film starts with the text: Around 60 AD the Roman empire was at his highest peak both geographical and economical. At the end of the film, a decade of years later on the decline of Rome is announced. But if you don't mind this simplistic lecture you can have a nice time watching for the juicy and well bosomed women (Amazons).

I guessed the film would be terrible, and indeed it was. Really crappy fighting scenes (seems like they were constantly fighting in slow-mo, assuring not to hurt eachother with their toy weapons), terrible acting (did they even retake a single scene? Can't give credit to a single actor), laughable costumes (at least when looking on the romans and the half-naked amazons in such a cold climate).

Don't ask me about the story and don't ask me about the silly clichées. Read a book instead of watching this film, go feed your goldfish. Anything.

I THOUGHT THIS MOVIE WAS GREAT, IT GAVE AWSOME SWORD FIGHTING SCENES with a AWSOME FIGHT SCENE AT THE END with SERENA and the EMPORER. THE MOVIE WAS ALMOST LIKE GLADIATOR, ONLY WITH FEMALES LOL. THIS MOVIE DID not DISSAPOINT me at ALL, and I ENJOY THE ROMAN ESQUE AND THE WHOLE GLADIATOR THING. IT WAS REALLY COOL TO SEE JENNY RUBIN IN SUCH a UNIQUE PERIOD MOVIE. I THOUGHT she DID REALLY WELL , JUST LIKE she ALWAYS DOES. SHE NEVER HAD A BAD MOVIE.

if you ENJOYED GLADIATOR or FOR all the SWORD and WEAPON fights THEN THIS MOVIE IS RIGHT UP THERE.