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Crazed homicidal baboons.   Many filmmakers might save the crazed homicidal baboons for the climactic stretch of their blood-soaked sword-and-sandal epic. That Ridley Scott serves up the crazed homicidal baboons near the start of Gladiator II, almost like an appetizer course, suggests how much bloody mayhem he still has in store for us. Over the two hours and change that follow, we get copious combat with huge sweaty dudes, one of them mounted on a rhinoceros,...