Sadly, Another Troy.

Rating: 5/10 (23 March 2007)

The rating is most for the outstanding visuals that take over the entire movie. Apart from the breath-taking lighting and cinematography to the above-average special effects, there is nothing else that I can state that is good about the movie. The acting is average, the direction good, the story - completely, historically and politically incorrect!
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Whoever heard about a Xerxes being a black drag queen, wearing Indian jewellery? Good God, I mean, what was the need for being so totally incorrect. The Spartans who were actually the "boy lovers", use the phrase loosely for the Greeks. While all the Spartans spout is unbridled machismo against a hedonistic and incredibly tall Persian who is nearly effeminate (shaped eyebrows and all) and completely devoid of any traits of a warrior.
I hated Troy for being completely different from the Troy that Homer created. As for "300" - I can say that it is a visually spectacular movie - but for me - it was just another Troy. Historically wrong and politically incorrect.