Gladiator II lost the plot, according to Russell Crowe.

Crowe, who won an Oscar for his role as Maximus in 2000’s Gladiator, is not a fan of the 2024 follow-up. “I think the recent sequel that, you know, we don’t have to name out loud, is a really unfortunate example of even the people in that engine room not actually understanding what made the first one special,” he said in an interview with Triple J. “It wasn’t the pomp. It wasn’t the circumstance. It wasn’t the action. It was the moral core.”

Gladiator II starred Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, Joseph Quinn, and Connie Nielsen. In the second installment of the Ridley Scott films, Maximus is revealed to have had an affair. The plot point is a problematic one for Crowe, who said he insisted that the character be shown as

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