could have been a good 5 min CG demo.

Rating: 1/10 (20 August 2007)

this movie is a pain, it is fast-packed like a music video, or even worse like a console video game intro, the battle scenes could be graphically interesting, but what's the point to make a movie around them?. Im not criticizing the history stuff, cause it is not important for a movie to be historical accurate, and this movie don't claim for historical accuracy, so it's not this the problem, judging this movie for this is completely missing the point. It is made from a graphic novel, so no problem, you know you are not going to see a movie about ancient history. The problem with the film is that if it was a 5 minutes video for a pop-singer idol, could have been OK for its audience. But watching it like it is, it's like watching a long and quickly boring, computer graphic demo. The characters have no soul, they seem as many Heros from an action game. The few scenes when they try to develop a bit the characters seem to be put there just to say: "look, it is still a movie, we are trying to make it appear like a movie". Cant say more, there's not too much to say about this movie, could have been good as a commercial spot, it doesn't inspire you much talking about, boring like hell, good for console addicted kids (or even adults).
I remember Pasolini saying something about the market eating and digesting everything, also the sh.t, so this is the prove Hollywood has found another market to assimilate and digest, the market of the computer games generation... how sad.