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Format: AC-3, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Studio: HBO Home Video
DVD Release Date: Aug 15 2006

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

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Family dysfunction. Treachery. Betrayal. Coarse profanity. Brutal violence. Graphic (and sometimes brutal) sex. No, it's not The Sopranos, it's Rome, HBO's madly ambitious series that bloodily splatters the glory of Rome just as savagely as Monty Python and the Holy Grail soiled the good name of Camelot (but with far fewer laughs; very few funny things happen on the way to this forum). Set in 52 B.C. (Before Cable), Rome charts the dramatic shifts in the balance of power between former friends Pompey Magnus (Kenneth Cranham), leader of the Senate, and Julius Caesar (Ciaran Hinds), whose imminent return after eight years to Rome after conquering the Gauls, has the ruling class up in arms. At the heart of Rome is the odd couple friendship between two soldiers who fortuitously become heroes of the people. Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) is married, honorable, and steadfast. Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson) is an amoral rogue whose philosophy is best summed up, "I kill my enemies, take their gold, and enjoy their women." Among Rome's most compelling subplots is Lucius's strained relationship with his wife, Niobe (Indira Varma), who is surprised to see her husband alive (but not as surprised as he is to find her upon his homecoming with a newborn baby in her arms!) Any viewer befuddlement over Rome's intrigues and machinations, and determining who is hero and who is foe, disappears the minute Golden Globe-nominee Polly Walker appears as Atia, Caesar's formidable niece and a villainess for the ages. In the first hour alone, she offers her already married daughter as a bride to the recently widowed Pompey. One eagerly awaits to see what (or who) she'll do next as much as we anticipate her comeuppance in the final episode.

Rome is a painstakingly mounted production that earned eight well-deserved Emmy nominations in such categories as costumes, set design, and art direction. Michael Apted (Coal Miner's Daughter) was honored with a Director's Guild Award for the first episode, "The Stolen Eagle." But artistic considerations aside, instantly addicted viewers will agree with Atia, who notes at one point, "I adore the secrecy, the intrigue. It's most thrilling." --Donald Liebenson

Beyond the Series

The Roman Empire in film and television
The Roman Empire in documentaries
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ccEight revealing audio commentaries with cast and crew
All Roads Lead to Rome interactive onscreen guide prepared by the series' historical consultant, Jonathan Stamp
Shot X Shot: Gladiator - A closer look at the thrilling episode 11 fight sequence
Shot X Shot: Caesar's Triumph - detailing the production of the epic episode 10 triumph scene
The Rise of Rome - behind-the-scenes featurette on sets, wardrobe and actors' boot camp
When In Rome - featurette on the culture of ancient Rome
Friends, Romans, Countrymen - introduction to the characters of Rome
Photo gallery with over 50 never-before-seen images

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5.0 out of 5 stars Rome Rules, Sep 30 2006

By	Dave and Joe "De Video Darlings" (Toronto, Ontario) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

You've read the plot from the other reviewers and the synopsis so I'm not going to bother with that here. What's important about Rome is that HBO has bothered to make a film for adults. They do not water down history and make Rome just an ancient version of Washington or Ottawa or London - thank the Gods. Rome is here with all the sweat, the dirt and the morals and mores of the day. Seeing this should involve some form of culture shock and Rome provides that. So, you need to be aware that there is nudity (male and female) and sex aplenty ... but it's always contextual (and occasionaly quite steamy) but it seems that the writers aren't using sex to create sensation they are using history to create atmosphere and sex then, like now, is in the air. The story is strong, didn't Shakesphere tell a similar tale? The acting amazing - James Purefoy as Anthony is one astonishment amongst many. So if you are a real live grown up, Rome is for you - if however you are one of those viewers waiting (and be honest, wanting) to be offended - Rome is not for you. Can't wait for season two ...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Now that great Caesar is a ghost the question is: quo vadis Rome?, Aug 10 2006

By	Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)

"Four hundred years after the last king was driven from the city, the Republic of Rome rules many nations, but cannot rule itself. The city is constantly roiled by conflict between the common people and the nobility. Power is shared and order maintained by two soldiers, old friends, Gnaeus Pompey Magnus and Gaius Julius Caesar. Once, Pompey was acknowledged by all to be the greater man. But for the last eight years while Pompey has kept the peace in Rome, Caesar has waged a war of conquest in Gaul that has made him ever more rich and popular. The balance of power is shifting and the nobility have grown fearful. Though of noble blood himself, Caesar stands with the common people. An aristocrat with soldier, money, and the love of the people--might make himself king."

Or they might be assassinated on the floor of the Senate in Rome on the Ides of March in the year 44 BC. However, the first episode of "Rome" begins with a battle in Gaul eight years earlier where Caesar's legions literally bring the king of the Gauls to his knees. Before we meet the familiar names from history the first character we see are Second Spear Centurion Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) and Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson) fighting in the ranks as the Mutt and Jeff of the 13th Legion. However, on the day of victory Caesar (Ciar�n Hinds) receives news that his daughter Julia, wife of Pompey (Kenneth Cranham), has died in childbirth.

Here the series plays with the chronology of history a bit. Julia Caesaris died in 54 BC, while Marcus Licinius Crassus, the third member of the First Triumvirate, was killed the following year during his campaign in Parthia and the series begins in Gaul in 52 BC. But Crassus is out of the picture and what matters is that we begin with the rift that developed between Pompey and Caesar because of these events. With Pompey becoming closer to the Optimates. Caesar offered Pompey one of his nieces in marriage, but Pompey refused and instead married Cornelia Metella, the daughter of one of Caesar's greatest enemies, Metellus Scipio. Meanwhile, Porcius Cato (Karl Johnson) is standing up in the Senate and speaking against the illegal Gallic War and demanding to know why Caesar has not returned to Rome. Cato predicts Caesar wants "to rule Rome as a bloody tyrant." In fact, Cato wants Caesar ordered home for trial. Pompey is not ready to renounce Caesar, but clearly Civil War is inevitable and both men are on the road to their respective deaths.

When in this case Atia of the Julii (Polly Walker) sends her young son, Octavian (Max Pirkis, "Master and Commander"), to Gaul to deliver a magnificent white horse as a gift to Ceasar, Pompey decides to kill two birds with one stone. Visiting Caesar in Gaul is Marcus Junius Brutus (Tobias Menzies), who arrives just as Caesar's personal standard has been stolen. The men think Caesar has lost his luck and so Vorenus and Pullo, the Mutt and Jeff of the series, are sent off to retrieve it. As Mark Antony (James Purefoy) points out, Vorenus has a brain, and while Pullo apparently does not he does provide requisite brawn. While they search for this particular needle in a haystack what they find instead is Octavian, who has been captured by brigands (along with the aforementioned stallion). Who would have thought with all that is happening that Caesar's biggest mistake is writing with only "great affection" and not love when sends a message to his former mistress, Servilia of the Junii (Lindsay Duncan), the mother of Brutus. He complains that his mother has been nagging him to attend politics; he has no idea what is to come.

In the first season of HBO's "Rome" we go from Gaul across the Rubicon to enter Rome, and travel to Greece and Egypt before coming back to the Eternal City. There is something to be said for a series where even those with the most limited knowledge of the last days of the Roman Republic and the Civil War that followed the fall of the First Triumvriate knows that Julius Caesar is going to be assassinated in the Roman Senate on the Ides of March. Yet this is a series that has as much of a sense of humor as it does a sense of history, as amply evidence by the cosmic joke played out in "Caesarion." Peace turns out to be a bigger challenge for Pollo and Vorenus than the Civil War, and while soap opera elements abound, it is always the political which prevails, especially when the two entwine, as Servilia proves.

I watched the ABC mini-series "Empire" last summer, which had many of the same characters and essentially began where "Rome" ends, with Ceasar's assassination. But "Empire" smacked too much of "Gladiator" when it needed to be more like "I, Cladius." The good news is that "Rome" is decidedly in the spirit of that celebrated BBC look at the early Roman emperors, although with more restrained performances (with Walker the exception that proves the rule here). Hinds provides the most complete portrait of Caesar to date and I especially like the political savy that Pirkis shows as the young Octavian, which makes me believe he really will hold his own against Antony down the road and become the first Roman emperor. Political calculations matter more than anything else in this world, and this kid is something special and with his uncle's death he becomes the future of the series. But in the final analysis, while Stevenson's Pollo provides surprising depth along the way it is McKidd's Vorenus who turns out to be the noblest Roman of this bunch and who will find the Ides of March to be a fateful day for more personal reasons as something other than the assassination of Caesar provides the big shock for the season finale.

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5.0 out of 5 stars WOW WOW WOW!, Nov 9 2009

By	Ron H "Ron H" (Oakville, Ontario) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Wow! Rome is probably the most entertaining and fun series I have seen on TV. This is an absolute must to watch at some point. This is HBO so beware it is a series for Adults. They spent a lot of money on sets and production to make this series authentic and it shows... I was disappointed there is no 3rd season. Essentially this series covers Julius Ceaser and the fall of the republic until the fall of Anthony and Cleopatra. The show really brings the time period to life in a way that makes you yearn for more knowledge of the period and more episodes. Wildly entertainig from large scale battles, political intrigue, relationships, etc. I am sure there are historical inaccuracies but unless you are a History Prof. you will gain tons of insight on the time period and gain a lot of respect for the ancestors living in that time period... all while being entertained beyond belief. TOP MARKS!

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