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Decent little premise for a movie. A virus that only kills women. It could have been an investigation of govt/political actions. Could have been a race against time thriller. Nope, it is just a romantic story about how much one dude loves one woman. Every other aspect of the story is just absurd and pointless.

Biggest complaint as many have noticed: Frida Pinto would be detected from outer space as a hot female. They go out in public without any preparation, when there are bounties paid for females, and the govt is rounding up and abducting females.

I could have enjoyed a little dystopian drama, but Frida Pinto ruined this movie. Poor girl needs help.

I agree. It is slow. Adult-oriented SW story.

Example of being slow: flashbacks to a young Cassian on a primitive planet that is being mined by The Empire (although it takes another 3 episodes to get the backstory through dialogue). His tribe/people see a mining space ship go down. They spend days finding it and creeping up on it (they have sticks for weapons). They cut to this, and cut away for 3 solid episodes! 3 episodes of people creeping through the jungle to find a ship?! It could have been done in 20 minutes. AND the results of that exploration are not clear for another 3 episodes. So, ok. For adults?

Otherwise, main actors are fantastic. Set design/effects are fantastic. Heist and Prison Break are very cool stories! The rest is just boring.

Blend of good and bad. 5 for talky-talky dialogue and boring Senator (when will SW learn that nobody cares about politics and Senators?) and 8 for action sequences/stories. 7.5?

Just sat through most of this, as a family member wanted to check it out. I did not have any expectations as it is merely an action movie on cable. I liked the original Gladiator! It was above average in action, and the cast was very good.

This movie, Gladiator 2 is really just garbage. The female lead actress looked kinda confused. It was like she wandered into the set.

The worst acting was the lead gladiator Pedro Mescal? His Irish accent kinda came and went, his face was a piece of slate most of the time. Not once did I think he was his character.

Really, the actors should not be singled out because the whole thing is a mess. The plot is nonsensical, the camera shots are random, there is no structure to the story nor the film. Ridley Scott put his name on this dumpster fire. He really should be embarrassed.

I went all the way to 3 because so much money was wasted, and the original was a decent film.

Can't imagine anyone who is a fan of films rating this above a 5. I liked Denzel, but even he was kinda acting goofy in his big scenes.