Got old quickly

Rating: 4/10 (23 March 2007)

I loved Sin City, and the Battle of Thermopylae was so cool, I knew that this would be an incredible movie. Plus, I'm a sucker for epic movies with really impressive fight scenes. For these reasons, I was really disappointed when I found myself checking to see how long I had been in the theater, and hoping that it was long enough.
It's not the constant fighting, which is quite visually impressive. It's not the lack of historical accuracy, which I wasn't expecting. It's not even the dialog, which could admittedly use some work. It's really just the delivery of the dialog.
I'm okay with overly dramatic movies, but in this movie everything is exactly the same. There are really only two ways anybody says any of the lines; quietly intense and angrily defiant. I'm sure someone along the way thought it would be a good idea to make every character the same cardboard cutout, but I really wish they hadn't. It ruined what seemed to be the perfect movie.