Spartacus

Director	Stanley Kubrick
Release year	1960
Genre	Adventure / Biography / Drama
My watch history	2024-03-16
Actors	Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin
IMDB	IMDB

Review

A slave called Spartacus is forced to fight against another slave on a training time. His life is spared because of the mercifulness of this another slave, but that slave gets killed by roman soldiers. Spartacus starts a rebellion and he and other slaves gets freed. They escape and slowly they will save other slaves from other towns as well until they are threat to the Rome.

This was an excellent heroic movie and somehow it reminded me about movies like Gladiator and Braveheart. It wouldn't surprise me if both of those movies would have got inspiration from this movie.

Even this movie is a very long one, it didn't felt too long. Still I think it could work even as a shorter movie as well, but surely that is hard to say without seeing how much would have been lost.

I kind of liked the ending of the movie. It felt realistc and even with losing Spartacus really won since his son and his wife got their freedom so it was the war worth fighting for for him.

Review written: 2024-03-16