Gladiator

This is it. This is the big one. We finally critique Ridley Scott's Oscar winning Gladiator , starring the formidable Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius . He may be a father to a murdered son and a husband to a murdered wife, but does the movie he's starring in hold up after all these years? Mel takes us through the real history of Rome and its gladiatorial combat and gives us the lowdown…