The battle scene in the first ten minutes is incredible. But it was never explained why Maximus had an Aussie accent... Nor how he could ride a horse from Germany to Spain in just a couple of days...
Funny...I watched a Burt Lancaster movie from the Sixties called “The Train” recently (about Nazis leaving France with a train full of stolen art and loot as the allies advance, and trying to get a French train yard manager (Burt Lancaster) to cooperate with them) and I did enjoy the movie except for one thing.
They made no effort to have any of the French or German characters change their accent...soooooo...you have this French train yard being operated by Brits, guys from Brooklyn, etc.
I suspended belief to watch it, and it was pretty good except for that!
everybody knows you have to be british today a roman