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Gladiator (1992)

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21:00-23:00 Tue 13th Jan 2009 120m
Five US

Synopsis

Director Rowdy Herrington delivers exactly the sort of films you would expect from someone so named: his works tend to be brutish, no-nonsense slices of macho action, and this is one of the best. Cuba Gooding Jr, so impressive in Boyz N the Hood and awarded an Oscar for Jerry Maguire, plays a streetwise teenager, who, along with Twin Peaks alumnus James Marshall, is lured into the world of illegal boxing by a memorably sleazy Brian Dennehy. The plot is riddled with clichés, but this is much grittier territory than the airbrushed world of the Rocky films, and the two leads are aided by a talented line-up of fine character actors, including John Heard, Robert Loggia and Ossie Davis.