it's tragic this movie was made at all

Rating: 3/10 (15 March 2007)

This movie was garbage. It overdoes everything. Everyone overacts and there's way too much slow-mo.
First of all, every scene in the movie, whether a simple conversation or an epic battle scene, ends in shouting. There is one emotion in the movie: anger. The protagonist, King Leonidas, shouts at his wife, a messenger, the Oracle, and every other character he has a conversation with. Next time try to create some 3-dimensional characters that experience more than one emotion.
When I first saw the preview I noticed that the whole thing was in slow motion, but I just figured that they only took those scenes to use for it. But halfway through the movie I realized that about two-thirds of the movie up to that point was in slow-mo (the ratio remained fairly constant up to the end of the film). Every swing of a sword, thrust of a spear, and block of a shield was slowed to a fraction of real time. At first it was kind of entertaining, but it got pretty old pretty fast.
Finally, there was absolutely no script in this movie. I understand that the dialog is supposed to be some sort of an old-school type lingo or whatever, but it still has to be interesting. Basically, there was no substance to the script. It completely relied on the slow-mo dance-o-gore performed by the "actors" in front of a green screen. Don't get me wrong, I usually love a good gore-fest with a sprinkling of unnecessary female frontal nudity, my favorite movie is Starship Troopers, but those are the only redeeming qualities the film possesses. However, there's still got to be some sort of a script, whether the acting is there or not.
Oh yeah, and the whole movie is narrated.