Sadly, despite some impressive sets, the movie just looks cheap all the way through. the epic Roman orgy which is probably the closest filmed to how it really happened back then. Only one or two scenes (the lesbian interlude in particular) seem to have been clumsily inserted into the movie by Tinto Brass and generally the rest of the sex fits the story and adds to the realism of the times, e.g. Be prepared for acres of heaving flesh throughout the film's course. A film financed in the US by Playboy, made in Italy with a cast of British leads, this was hugely controversial back on its release due to the explicit scenes of sex which litter the production. Here's a historical film that's epic in length, if not in production values. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10 Flawed would-be Roman epic Can the Roman Empire tolerate the uncontrollable mania of the insane tyrant? Now, as a four-year reign of depravity and terror commences, allegiances turn into betrayal, virginities are destroyed, torture and execution weed out the competition, and dangerously megalomaniac Caligula declares himself a god. After the murder of bedridden Tiberius, Caligula is proclaimed the new emperor, who, in turn, proclaims his beloved sister and lover, Julia Drusilla, as his equal, much to the disgust of the Roman Senate. With the reign of the frail, syphilis-ridden, half-mad Emperor Tiberius coming to an end, Prince Gaius Augustus Germanicus, aka Caligula, is summoned to the demented ruler's palace of sin on the island of Capri.
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