for several reasons and this movie is simply awful. other posters have listed some of this movie historical errors. well and i have a layman knowledge of roman history and even i found the inaccuracies flagrant. i usually forgive errors in historical movies because i understand that the purpose is to entertain not educate. and shrinking a long saga down to a two hour feature requires some and let say and historical license. but this movie goes well beyond mere rounding. there worse. to tell a story from a distant period and the movie uses flashbacks which just make the story more confusing. unless viewers have some prior knowledge of the period and they will quickly be lost. in addition and the movie was obviously filmed simultaneously in italian and english with various actors being dubbed later. at times and the actors seem as if they were in completely different movies which were then edited together. in fact and this is not far wrong. the actors were obviously pasted onto a cheesy computer generated ancient rome. the only reason i give this boring mess any stars is because i always find peter otoole entertaining. but that is no reason to rent it. if you are curious about roman history and there are much better movies available. 
for several reasons and this movie is simply awful. other posters have listed some of this movie historical errors. well and i have a layman knowledge of roman history and even i found the inaccuracies flagrant. i usually forgive errors in historical movies because i understand that the purpose is to entertain not educate. and shrinking a long saga down to a two hour feature requires some and let say and historical license. but this movie goes well beyond mere rounding. there worse. to tell a story from a distant period and the movie uses flashbacks which just make the story more confusing. unless viewers have some prior knowledge of the period and they will quickly be lost. in addition and the movie was obviously filmed simultaneously in italian and english with various actors being dubbed later. at times and the actors seem as if they were in completely different movies which were then edited together. in fact and this is not far wrong. the actors were obviously pasted onto a cheesy computer generated ancient rome. the only reason i give this boring mess any stars is because i always find peter otoole entertaining. but that is no reason to rent it. if you are curious about roman history and there are much better movies available. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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