Gladiator II continues a decades-old story in more ways than one. Not only has it taken 24 years for a sequel to Ridley ...

Gladiator 2 is thrilling – even if Paul Mescal is no Russell Crowe - 4/5 Ridley Scott’s belated sequel has sharks, monkeys, ...

Part two, set 20 years after the events of the first movie, brings a new combatant to the Coliseum — a mysterious outsider ...

While many of the reviewers who got an early look at the follow-up to the 2001 best picture winner said it's largely a rehash, most of them were dazzled by its battles and epic scope.