'Spartacus' aims high but lacks character.
Multichannel News, April, 2004 by Haugsted, Linda
The remake virus--the scourge that has inflicted such recent rehashes as Scooby-Doo and Starsky and Hutch on the viewing public--has now infected USA Network. At least the cable net aimed higher than did the producers that went into the cartoon and forgettable-episodic-TV vault. USA rehashes the 1960 Academy Award-winning film Spartacus.
But the miniseries that emerged is just too slick for its own good. It has a good pedigree: it's based on an acclaimed novel, adapted by a Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter. But on screen, it has no soul and no emotion. It's sort of a slave revolt populated by metrosexuals. The wandering tribe of battling former slaves appears to be attended at all times by barbers and stylists who keep them gelled and...
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