I absolutely love gladiator. It goes down as probably my second favorite movie of all time behind Saving Private Ryan. I loved how the plot was not predictable. You think he is gonna escape and get his army and march on Rome and everything is gonna be happy and dandy. Then he's captured and you think he is gonna be executed. Then he fights the emperor and you think hes gonna defeat him and yay everythings gonna be perfect. Then he gets stabbed in the stomach and you think its all over. But then he kills the emperor and you think once again hes gonna live any everything is gonna turn out alright. Then he drops dead. It was an amazing plot.