Highly recommended for the artistic and open mind!

Rating: 7/10 (20 May 2007)

First of all I don't understand what type of expectations all the nay-sayers had when they entered the theatre, especially since most of you probably knew that this is movie spawned by the same brains that came up with sin city.
I expected a epic battle depicted in a up to date style suitable for the year 2006. Which is what I got, and I enjoyed it throughout the whole time. If it is not clear that this movie is far from an accurate history lesson, then it should be so from the first few minutes of the film (and crystal clear at the end of the mountain scene). Realism is sacrificed for the sake of visuals and artistic freedom. And it is a good thing.
Everything i see just looks so damn cool through the red black and gold coloured film grading, The camera angles are cool, the red capes look cool on the pumped spartan bodies. The CGI backgrounds (mostly) look marvelous. And that is just before the battle scenes starts, which is probably the coolest looking and best crafted CGI battle scenes I have ever seen, with bizarre gruesome villains that look insanely cool, and woderfully unrealistic.
So with that in mind - the criticism the movie has received regarding the depiction of the persians, The only offensive fact here may be that they are called "persians" - come on, This is a movie created by open minded visual artists, under the inspiration of a historical event.
...And then finally we have the script and dialogue, it keeps the story going but sadly we have the main flaw of movie here with its holes and poorly developed subplot. It brings my score down with two stars.