In Gladiator, victorious general Maximus has been named keeper of Rome and its empire by dying emperor Marcus Aurelius, so that rule might pass from the Caesars back to the people and Senate.
Marcus neglected and power-hungry son, Commodus, has other ideas. Maximous manages to escape his own execution by Praetorians and races back to his home in Spain, but he finds him wife and son already dead.
Maximous is capture and taken and to a man, Proximo, who uses him as a Bladiator.
The time soon comes when Proximo troupe is called to Rome to participate in a marathon of gladiator games, Commodus.
Once in Rome, Maximus wastes no time in making his presence known, and is soon involved in a plot to overthrow the emperor with his former-love Lucilla, Commodus sister, after whom he lusts, and also the widowed mother of Lucius, heir to the empire his uncle.
And finally, Maximous is forced to fiht of his superior skill.
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