Photo: Paramount Spoilers follow for Gladiator II , released in theaters on November 22. There are spectacles of all sorts in Gladiator II , Ridley Scott’s sequel to his 2000 Best Picture winner. Sharks and baboons with a taste for human flesh chomping through fighters. Paul Mescal sans shirt, with a chest as beefy as it is hairless. Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger, under white powder and red eye shadow like Joker sycophants. A lot of this film attempts to be unforgettable. But only one element