entertaining

Rating: 8/10 (7 April 2007)

Awesome! A truly entertaining and fun to watch film. I feel that the attacks made on this film for being historically inaccurate are unfair. The film is a mythical take on the story and changes were made to make it a more exciting film to watch. I for one love the manner in which Xerxes' personal armed guards, who in actual history were known as the "Immortals", are portrayed in the film as demonic creatures from the "Blackness" in order to emphasize their reputation and the fear that they struck in their opponents. Another example would be the exaggerated size of the elephants and the rhino which was done again to put emphasis on the fact that these animals were something new and unlike anything the Spartans have ever had to fight. the fights scenes were some of the most brilliantly done and exciting that I have ever seen.The use of speed changes was incredible. The claims that this movie is anti-Iraque or a political statement about the middle-east is ridiculous. The Persians were made out to be these horrible and beastly people in order to cause the audience to really connect with the Spartan's view of them.If you made a movie were the antagonists were portrayed as a group of people that the audience connected with just as easily as the protagonists then there wouldn't be any tension.