One of the Worst Movies I've Ever Seen

Rating: 1/10 (23 March 2007)

It's true that this is eminently watchable and it's very easy to get sucked into the comic-book emulation style and oooh-ah at the verisimilitude. Freeze-frame any scene and it can be transposed to the comic book of the same name, and you have to applaud the technical skill that accomplished that. However, as a MOVIE, on offer to millions, I was squirming in my seat. I watched this back to back with Apolcalpto and hated 300 and loved Apocalypto. I was prepped to hate Apocalypto and love 300, but I stopped watching 3/4 thru and here's why: it is the worst sort of political movie. It must've been selected by the White House because it takes shots at legality and rights and glorifies the fame/hate-focused head of state. It is a racist movie: I'm white but boy I was glad I wasn't black because every bad-guy is black and it is so obvious a ploy that I just had to stop watching because i was starting to feel as if I was tacitly approving. The casting is appalling: the current fashion is an English woman opposite an American male and how do you make that work in a story about the Spartans? I'll tell you how: you saturate the senses with so much eye-candy and erect nipples that no one is able to think the concept thru. Maybe the movie saves itself in the last 30 minutes (which I missed by choice) but I doubt it could. I think Frank Whoever is a serious racist and any studio that supports that message needs to reevaluate its responsibilities. I walked out. Make up your OWN mind.