An unethical movie

Rating: 1/10 (9 March 2007)

The monstrous, evil and disgusting Persian soldiers, as depicted in the movie, is a direct insult and disgrace to the written and well known history of the remarkably civilized Persian Empire. It is a proved scholarly fact that the Persian Empire in 480 B.C was the most magnificent and civilized empire. Established by the Cyrus the great, the writer of the first human right declaration, Persians ruled over significant portions of Greater Iran, the east modern Afghanistan and beyond into central Asia; in the north and west all of Asia Minor (modern Turkey), the upper Balkans peninsula (Thrace), and most of the Black Sea coastal regions; in the west and southwest the territories of modern Iraq, northern Saudi-Arabia, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, all significant population centers of ancient Egypt and as far west as portions of Libya. Having twenty nations under control, encompassing approximately 7.5 million square kilometers, unquestionably the Achaemenid Empire was territorially the largest empire of classical antiquity.
Although I find this heresy nothing short of a reaction to the denial of Holocaust by Iran's president (which is indeed, disgusting as well), twisting the history and insulting the glorious and remarkably civilized past times of an ancient civilization is a far worse disgracing and disgusting action. Let the politicians bark at each other, and let the art stay genuine.