Last night, I left a bustling AMC Century City with sand on my hands and a sword at my side, marching toward a new Rome. Well, that's what happened in my mind anyway as Ridley Scott's Gladiator II ended. There was a lot to unpack as the movie faded to black, so let's dive right in and get that ending explained. What we do in life echoes in eternity. Gladiator II SynopsisIt has been sixteen years since Maximus killed Commodus in the Coliseum, and Rome has two new psychotic emperors and the senate is We open the movie on a battle in North Africa, where a husband and wife man the walls. After the city is sieged by General Marcus Acacius, the husband, who we'll come to learn is Lucius from the first Gladiator movie, who makes it out alive. Lucius is sold into slavery to Denzel Washington's Macrinus, a social climber who has his eyes on being in control of Rome. Macrinus uses Lucius's rage to make him into a famous gladiator, while simultaneously figuring out that he's the lost so of Lucilla, who is now married to Marcus Acacius. Meanwhile, Lucilla sees Lucius in the ring and realizes he's her long lost son, who she sent away to avoid being killed in the wake of Commodus's death. She goes to him and he tells her he's not upset at what happened to him but wants to kill General Marcus Acacius. He doesn't understand that General Marcus Acacius is...
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