Contamination vs The Arena
Contamination has the higher audience score (10/10 against 3.2/10 for The Arena). The Arena is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 47m. The Arena is the older of the two (2001 against 2025). Both are action movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Contamination
The Arena| Contamination | The Arena | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 3.2/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2001 |
| Length | 1h 47m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Action, Horror, Science Fiction | Action |
| Country | Canada | – |
| Director | David Heacock, Neil Chase | Timur Bekmambetov |
| Main cast | Elizabeth Chamberlain, Neil Chase, Brandon Horth, S-Raj Kumar, Tyler Sabourin | Viktor Verzhbitskiy, Natalya Surkova, Karen McDougal, Lisa Dergan, Olga Sutulova |
Synopsis
Contamination
A top secret Alaskan lab goes dark due to an unexplained incident, prompting the military to send a black ops team to recover sensitive data and destroy the lab, only to find their ranks infected with a deadly alien virus.
The Arena
In an age of Gladiators, the power that was Rome held its empire together with the might of its armies, the sweat and tears of its conquests, and the cheers and bloodlust of its citizens – glorified in the deadly spectacle of The Arena. Stolen from their homelands, the fiery Druid maiden Bodicia, exotic slave girl Jessemina, and the powerful barbarian Flavius, are pitted against each other as gladiators by the sadistic Roman Governor Timarchus…
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