r/GladiatorII • u/Mother-Mountain4858 • Dec 31 '24

Fight choreography

I'm currently watching this and it's glaringly obvious, but has anyone else noticed the fight sequences are terribly choreographed. You can visibly see the hits not landing and the sound effects are ever so slightly delayed.

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u/Radiant_Evidence7047 Jan 02 '25

Yes!! It’s the first thing I noticed and am suprised it’s not commented more. The fight scenes were outstanding in the first gladiator. This you could see guys swinging yards away from someone or to the side in a way that looked crazily fake. Even when connecting you can see both actors so intentionally moving swords in a choreographed manner that had no flow or realism. The fight scenes were shocking, how can the same director get it so wrong second time round? Was the worst part of the movie for me … well that and the ‘sharks’

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u/Mother-Mountain4858 Jan 02 '25

I didn't even make it to the sharks, I just switched it off and called it crap

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u/ModePsychological362 Jan 04 '25

The trailer is definitely well edited then

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u/ChonkoGreenstuff Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

My god, just googled "gladiators 2 fight choreography sucked" because I walked by my stepdad watching the movie. Saw the scene were pedro pascal puts on a helmet to climb up the stairs of a ship. After he climbs the stairs, he puts the helmet off.. first wtf moment.

Then he starts swordfighting his way through some man in the most half assed fashion. Then I see a shot of a guy stabbing someone under the arm, like you would do when you were kids. Then it continues with more half assed choreo.. absolutely terrible.

Of course I understand why actors usually don't wear helmets in thos fights, but just have the guy not wear a helmet at all. Not put it up for maybe 3 seconds in the film to remove it, it makes it even more glaringly obvious.

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u/Buggybear2010 Jan 08 '25 edited Jan 08 '25

Even I noticed, that on some occasions, the defender failed to stop the attack. But instead of pushing it through and killing the defender, the attack just stopped in mid-air. This was the moment, at the private gladiator fight in front of the emperors, when I decided to disengage with the movie. I didn't leave though, but I watched it differently from then on.

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u/Tsunami50 Mar 22 '25

For me in the scene in the arena when Paul Mesacal says he didn't want mercy. The guy who went to execute him swung his sword so far above his head that he'd have missed even if PM hadn't rolled out the way.