Gladiator II is out in just a few days so what better way to celebrate its release than by pitting the original Gladiator (2000) against another blockbuster of epic proportions - Braveheart (1995). Both share protagonists out for revenge fighting for more than just their lost loved ones - freedom against tyranny.

In the return of our Versus series, it's Maximus against William Wallace. Ridley Scott against Mel Gibson. Russel Crowe against, uhh, Mel Gibson again. Who will win? Well give it a listen to find out.

Each Versus episode brings with it new categories to score against and in today's one, they are as follows: Protagonist / Story / Action Set Pieces / Production Design / Soundtrack.

As a reminder, we score each film out of 5 for each of these categories so a max score of 25, add them up at the end and see which film bested the other.

FULL SPOILERS FOR GLADIATOR AND BRAVEHEART IN THIS EPISODE. You have been warned.

Agree with our scores? What would you score these films? We want to know!

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To battle!

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - Preamble

00:13:37 - Category 1: Protagonist

00:36:50 - Category 2: Story

01:08:22 - Category 3: Action Set Pieces

01:29:35 - Category 4: Production Design

01:45:43 - Category 5: Soundtrack

02:00:22 - Final Scores

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