The 'Silence of the Lambs' star is more of a featured player than a lead in Roland Emmerich and Robert Rodat's spectacle about power and bloodsport in 1st century Rome.
gazes out like a gnarled marble bust brought partially to life. Even the commercials that acknowledge that the series is perhaps a bit more of an ensemble piece feature the multiple Oscar winner in a badly photoshopped human pyramid, the recognizable pinnacle atop a promotional Eye of Providence.
Our point-of-entry into the world of competitive bloodsport is Tenax , a former guttersnipe who has risen to control a wildly successful gambling concern tied to the chariot races in the Circus Maximus. Tenax has even bigger dreams, though. It goes on, though! Chariot racing isn’t the only sport happening at venues including Vespasian’s pet architectural project, the Flavian Amphitheater, which is approaching its grand opening. There are also the gladiators themselves, led by Kwame , a young African who catches a giant CG lion in one scene and is abducted to Rome along with sisters Aura and Jula in the next.
“The artifice is what makes it entertaining. And profitable,” Domitian says at one point, a line of dialogue that made me cheer louder than any character’s victory in the arena, because if there are people inPlus, every time you stray outside the parts of the drama that are intended to be ludicrous, you end up in the parts that are unintentionally ludicrous, which is to say any time the writers are making things up rather than working from a vague factual template.
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