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As for the shaky camera movement in the battle scenes I think there was a purpose to all that, and that purpose is that you're SUPPOSED to be confused! You're in the heat of battle, so of course you can't clearly see everything that's going on. It's easy to be a spectator on the sidelines of something, but it's a totally different thing to be in the middle of it all. If all movies were made so that you could only see things from the p.o.v. of a spectator on th sidelines, now that would be boring cinema!
As for the story? (SPOILER ALERT) I encourage anyone who's seen this movie to look up the emperor Commodus in the Encyclopedia. You'll find that he died in a bathtub, strangled to death by a wrestler, or something like that. I does the viewers an enormous disservice to make up this whole ficticious scene about him dying in a one-on-one fight with this ficticious character Maximus. Most people are gonna watch that and think it's historical fact.
Also: Yeah, it sounds real cool when Russel Crowe says "On my signal, unleash Hell." But wait-a-minute. Hell? This was about 200 years before Constantine. The Romans didn't yet have any concept of Heaven or Hell.
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