Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people.
This movie contains 62 potentially triggering events.
In the first colosseum scene, when the prisoners are brought out, they release large baboon-like creatures (obvious CGI) to fight them. A few are hit with chains, and one is eventually strangled with one. The scene is quick though, and you don't see the actual death (just the moment right before.)
No one is gaslighted AT ALL in this movie. Many people are lied to and manipulated in other ways, but no one is manipulated in such a way that intentionally causes them to question their grasp of reality.
Lucius has to fight a baboon, he bites in the baboons arm and kills it after.
In the colloseum they need to fight a gladiator on a rhino. Lucius lures him, and the rhino smashes into the brick wall. His horn is completely broken, covered in blood.
Yes, they fill up the colosseum with water and release sharks. The men are on boats, but guys fall off. You see a man get eaten by a shark on screen, so if you’re sensitive to that, stay away.
Baboons are hit with darts from blow guns. Unclear if they were drugged or just shot to make them angry. No effects that could be seen as drugging are shown.
There are one or two decapitation scenes that I cannot remember the exact details of, but the main one involves Joseph Quinn’s character. The moment itself is pretty graphic and then Denzel Washington’s character carries his head around for an entire scene afterwards.
Many of the characters have violent outburst to other characters. One of the twins violently tries to hurt another character and has to be restrained for examplen
The twin Emperors are queer-coded in a homophobic manner. They were also of mostly Arab descent IRL but are whitewashed here. Fridging and women are generally used as plot devices to motivate males.