Beautiful movie, one of the best.

Rating: 10/10 (20 March 2007)

I've seen thousands of movies, if not tens of thousands of movies in my lifetime and this was artistic, thoughtful, well-acted and very exciting. Though we all know the movie makers took artistic liberties with the historical authenticity of the subject matter (as is done with all historical movies, even those that try to stay as true as possible to historical fact), even considered as a work of fantasy, this is an excellent one. Like some epic tale out of Heavy Metal magazine, the imagery here is not to be missed. This is surely one of the best war movies ever made and I would go as far as saying that it is one of the best movies ever. The action is fast-paced and reminiscent of most modern action movies. The dialog is well-written though I'll admit, a couple of lines were cliché. But the style and beautiful imagery more than make up for this movies few short-comings, an easy 10/10.