incomprehensibly dreadful mishmash of the probably most notorious of all roman emperor who go insane and leave infamous party orgy and ruthless killing in his path . i know there be several version of this and and this be base on the 102 min one that i watch but i can not fathom how that possibly can make any difference to lift the rest of this movie out of the muck . i would hear for long about the alleged shocking content of sex or nudity ( which honestly there isn not much of here at all and bore when there be ) and blood and but beware it the technical production amateurishness that well and truly shock here represent everything look plain and simply like a junior film school flunk project . camera work be hopelessly inept and full of strange zoom and fail framing and confusing pan ( to and from what mostly look like a huge theater stage . ) complete with a grainy and cheapish photo quality . lighting and color scheme be terrible and uneven be it day or night . be they in or outside . have they change scene . who be and or be mean to be in the shot . editing be the final sin here and make a confusing mess of everything with randomly jumpy cutaway and continuity flaw and random transition that destroy any chance of momentum and story progression and involvement . there be potentially interesting dialog and an equally interesting true historical story . but these fault distract so much it tragic . a story with so many possibility to be great be just one gargantuan and burnt ( and fellini like ) turkey that only good for a few gobble laugh and peter otoole and who make a most memorable tiberius . oh yes and which bring u to the big name actor . i would like to line them all up one by one and just ask represent who do you get free access to bonk in the orgy to be a part of this . there and i have waste enough line on one of the truly bad film of all time period . negative from ozjeppe .