Slam Bang Excitement! Violent! An Anger Venting Mechanism!

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 2008)

This is a good movie that opens the door to controversy. That is what makes this film so good. My youngest daughter saw this film at the theatre and said afterwards she had to own it. The action sequences are a bit fake (because of, no doubt, high tech animation) and the bodies of the soldiers are a bit too honed to perfection via computer graphics, but otherwise this is a racially charged, designed to excite, argumentative-type movie. The emissaries are black (sent hurtling to the depths of the centre of the earth), King Xerxes is a Barak Obama look-alike and King Leonidas is someone obsessed with keeping Greece "white" (all barbarians to be kept out at all costs). I wonder how much subconscious material in this film was based on the current immigration policies of European countries, not to mention our own, that might have influenced the message in this screenplay? Whatever the intent of the filmmakers, this film has generated a lot of anger and controversy that I thought could never happen nowadays in our "politically correct" environment. I am glad to see that some movie makers have decided to wake some of us up out of the doldrums of a ho-hum dreary existence into an angst of vigour that might translate into some constructive balance in the views expressed in the public forum. Good work Zack Snyder! Good movie!