i rat this movie a 3 and that be generous . the scenery be ponderous and gaudy and the acting for the most part be terrible . i do think peter otoole do a good job of act ( tiberius ) and but he must have be mortify when he saw the final cut of the movie . john gielgud and howsoever brief his appearance in the movie and still seem to be play a role from hamlet . the hard core pornography part be neither erotic nor do they do much to further the story . okay malcolm mcdowell have a nice butt and the guy who play macro be handsome . the guy who play claudius and look more like the traditional depiction of nero and be certainly at odds with robert graf picture of claudius . the climactic ( . ) assassination of caligula and wife and child be inaccurate in that it show him after death lie on stair in an open air area and when in fact he be assassinate in the underground passage on the palatine hill which run along the front of the domus flaviana that still exist today . there be place in this movie where virtually anything draw my attention away from it merciful distraction . if you want history and read suetonius or tacitus and if you want pornography and sadism and watch passolini salo and but by all mean stay away from this movie .