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Historical action adventure.

Saw this as a Tesco Movie Night freebie (4 complimentary tickets + drinks and snacks), could not refuse.

The movie starts with an epic battle, where the hero sees his wife die, she is an archer who dies in battle. This fills the hero's heart with rage, he is captured and taken to Rome as a slave, he becomes a champion gladiator and leader (sounds too familiar)

Stunning visuals, amazing to think that the original was made a quarter century ago! With that in mind I imagine that most of the modern audience would not even have been born when it came out.

I recommend that you watch only one of these two movies, or you will compare and probably realise the plots are too similar. You might even prefer the first and original, especially if you are a Russel Crow fan.

Biopic.

I'm not a big Bob Marley fan but am of films based on true events and biopics.

Bob Marley is undoubtedly one of the most important individuals in the world of music, synonymous with Reggae. This is a film about his life and journey to super-stardom.

I didn't realize how deeply he was involved in Jamaican politics and troubles.

By the end we can certainly appreciate what he believed in and lived for, his music is remarkable, he can be considered a legend and a national hero.

There are several actual video clips playing during the end credits showing actual footage and how Bob's life ended. This generally how these kind of films end.

Historical documentary based on a 2014 novel.

I really wanted to like this, and the many positive reviews gave me high hopes. Zone of interest was an interesting 'arty' concept but poorly executed (sorry).

We follow the everyday lives of German Nazi commander Rudolf Hoss and his family, who live an idyllic middle-class life, while being completely insensitive to the Auschwitz concentration camp, next door behind a 30-foot concrete wall.

Not brutal or violent, no gore, not even a drop of blood. Just smoke from the furnace chimneys and the sound of gunshots and human suffering

Hoss is a very efficient commander, who is responsible for the killing of 3 million Jews, 2.5 million by cremation and 500K by starvation and disease.

This could have been made into a 20minute YouTube documentary and still have had the same impact.