Untruthful, Outrageous movie

Rating: 1/10 (14 March 2007)

This movie is not based on the reality and the has no connection to the truth as is documented in different sources of history including the Greek historians. First of all, I believe he made a mistake in the geography of Persia. Persia(Iran) is located in Asia and not Africa. Because all the animals that are in the film are native to Africa, and some of them such as elephants are native to India and central Africa and the Persian Empire had nothing to do with them. Second, the appearance of Persians shown in the movie including the color of their skin is not and has never been black. Also, it promotes that there were slavery in Persia, which is the biggest lie of all. There is no documented sign of slavery in ancient Persia. Even all the palaces are built by paid workers. Human rights have been introduced by Cyrus the great for the first time in the history of human being! Even women workers had maternity leave and insurance and this shows how civilized they were. If I want to write about how really Persians were, it would be a glorious book. They were pioneer in the first single god religion, calendar, post, highway building, and many more. I could not figure out why the producer and director should have made such a movie other than making money or ? It is shameful how the power of media is abused to despise a nation. However, the graphics and special effects of the movie were great. Having said that, making this movie has made thoughtful people to go and search more about the history of Persia and this has a reverse reaction. Seeing this film has made even Iranians to learn more about their history and more is sure that what a big liar this film is. I believe intelligent people who do not have the time to read the historian books, can go to websites such as History channel website and learn the truth.