Caligula (1979) Reviews & Ratings

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Caligula reviews

Caligula holds a 6.0/10 average from 1,017 TMDB ratings.

Land sakes!!! They don't make films like this anymore...and that's a dirty rotten shame! =)
— talisencrw (8/10)

Walk through a Bosch painting and marvel at the excesses and debauchery. Critics don't take this seriously because a porn producer snipped it up and inserted his own scenes. It is what it is. A near masterpiece.
— Arrrrrrrach (9/10)

A distinguished international cast; a screenplay by Gore Vidal; respected, award-winning talent behind the scenes; and millions of dollars at its disposal. What could possibly go wrong? Where would you like to start? CALIGULA (1979) had so much potential. I'd like to think that there's another universe where Vidal's much darker original script was given over to, say, Stanley Kubrick. That world now has a SPARTACUS (…
— adorablepanic (4/10)

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

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