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With this kind of film you don't talk about getting involved with the film anymore, or how real it seems. You're just counting corpses and think how many must die in how much time for the film to end in 90 minutes. But I think the snake movement bits were quite well done. I even think that the movie started out with a computer wizz kid making a snake, and that the film was being made around it later. But I think the makers didn't entirely fail in making entertainment. At one point you are beyond the irritation with predictable and ingredient films.

I guess these dialogues can be considered quite nice, if you bother to pay close attention to them. (Who is that dialogue writing chap anyway!)

But I cannot help being bothered more by the lack of historic correctness. Especially the scene where Caesar is murdered and people start giving preaches to the people of Rome without one soldier or guard ever around. As an unhistoric character study I think it is also way beyond the common human way of things. I think no-one ever killed someone he truly loved for the good of the country. Brutus's character as described in this movie is out of this world. And I'm just not caught by the movie.

This film is made to make money. This means it is cooked according to a familiar recipe and that you know where it is going. But the same can be said of a roller-coaster. And sometimes I love a roller-coaster. But a home cinema environment is recommended.

I just didn't quite like the "Roughy" part. Don't know why.