Watched Gladiator 2 this weekend. Something went wrong with my 4k disc. It started glitching out at around 35mins in. So I had to finish watching it on the blu ray. Having to downgrade.....such first world problems.....hahaha!
Story was ok, nothing new. Denzel was clearly the acting winner in this movie. He seemed to enjoy his character in this movie. Which, it wasn't really different than some of his previous roles in other movies, but he just does it well. The worst acting job came from Connie Nielsen. She reprised her role as Lucius's mother. I'm not sure what Ridley was doing with this movie. It didn't need to be made. Someone needs to rein in Ridley and only give him $50m budgets and let him get creative, instead of just handing him $100m+ and going crazy. Picture and sound were good. From the 30mins I got from the 4k, the picture was crystal clear. ZERO grain. So all the grain haters will love it! The Atmos was pretty solid throughout. Lots of surround and height effects going on while in Rome and during some other fights.
Overall, I'm giving the movie a 7/10. It's generous. Only because Denzel did great for what he had to work with. If Denzel wasn't in it, this would easily be a 6/10.
