Denzel Washington’s performance in Gladiator II is the highlight of the movie, but also ends up taking away from the main ...

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Gladiator II | Macrinus (2024 Movie) - Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington For the entire movie, the audience is waiting for the other shoe to drop with Macrinus. He’s clearly scheming ...

Macrinus and Lucius face one another in an epic fight in a river that Max and his team built. It doesn’t end well for Macrinus. Lucius slices off his arm with a sword, and one final swing ends him.

Macrinus is a larger-than-life figure who looms over everyone around him, even the twin emperors of Rome. Yet Washington contrasts that with moments of quiet contemplation and even levity.

As Macrinus, Washington delivers his lines and flashes that smile as only he can, playing a character who we know from the beginning is sketchy. But Macrinus’ disdain for the bloodthirsty regime ...

Elsewhere, Washington’s Macrinus has his own designs on power in Rome. Therein lies the Achilles’ heel of “Gladiator II” — there is simply too much plot to truly care about these characters.

How Macrinus Seizes Power. Macrinus (Denzel Washington) makes his power move by exploiting Emperor Caracalla (Fred Hechinger)’s resentment against his brother Geta (Joseph Quinn).

Macrinus had Caracalla bumped off and three days later the troops proclaimed Macrinus emperor. This was nothing to be sneezed at: Never before had an equestrian (i.e a non senator) ...

How Macrinus Seizes Power. Macrinus (Denzel Washington) makes his power move by exploiting Emperor Caracalla (Fred Hechinger)’s resentment against his brother Geta (Joseph Quinn).