In this movie, everything happens in ponderous, pointless slow motion. The movie is like a leaning tower that takes forever to fall. Lots of reaction shots of people looking grave, or possibly, just out of the grave. The screenplay aims for sonorousness but succeeds only in being incredibly trite, not to mention predictable. The acting is wooden, all right, but then so are the lines. Leave it to Hollywood to take a grand theme and make a tedious costume soap opera out of it. See Spartacus instead, or, if you must, Gladiator.
Review of The Fall of the Roman Empire
