It just looks worse than the first one in every comparable scene. Ironically if they hadn't connected it to Gladiator I think more people would have given it a shot.
And it kills me. I want this to be good, because I love history. I'm a history scholar! My dick should be throbbing over this, but instead it's soft and flaccid. Ridley Scott has burned me too many times with his "historical" films. In fact, I can't just blame Scott, but Hollywood in general for creating trash historical films that should be classed as fantasy.