I am Greek and I'd like to comment the movie..excellent!

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2007)

First of all anyone who hasn't watched this beauty of a movie would better do so right away. It is at least spectacular as a profusion of stylized action (maybe even violence)flashes before your eyes.in the cinema there was a mother with her 7-year old son. BIG mistake! The movie is absolutely worth the R-rating! As for the movie now. The acting was superb especially Gerard Butler and his queen, Lena Heady. The scene where the Dying King shouts to his wife goodbye an myriads of arrows fly to deliver the killing stroke gave me the chills.As for mister Miller he performed a miracle once again writing that comic book not to mention the magnificently haunting music of Tyler Bates. It is simply a flawless film. Now the historical content of the movie.I come from Greece so it is only natural that I have studied Spartan history and the Persian Wars rather well. MALE SPARTANS NEVER SLEPT WITH EACH OTHER(as I read to a comment)!!!It's true homosexuality was not a taboo these days but not for the Spartans. The did take a great pride in their bodies killed the misshaped children by throwing them into Caeadas, a river. The only slight inaccuracy is that Spartan warriors never grew a beard so the enemy could not yank their head forward. The Persians were not like that and NEITHER was Xerxes like a transsexual!! He looked like an average attractive man as I've read.But the movie tries to picture his hybris and the overwhelming luxury in Persia these days that made Persians idle.