Not the worst movie I have seen in years, but close

Rating: 2/10 (22 March 2007)

I am not sure this movie had a message, but if it did, I think it might be this: tyranny and mysticism are so terrible that it is worth killing everyone in sight to replace those qualities with a culture of war and brutality. After two hours of minimal and often ridiculous dialog and lots and lots of battle scenes that failed to impress or distress (because they failed to engage), that's about all I got out of this pathetic waste of film.
Sure, there was a love interest or two, but even comic books do a better job of presenting relationships that one might care about. And to the extent that the human relationships did offer dome sense of connection to the characters, the charm was undermined by reliance upon anachronistic concepts that didn't make it into literature and society until relatively recently.
I could go on, but why bother? I feel like I have already put as much care in thought into this sparse review as went into this movie that supposedly has something to do with actual Spartans, though one would never know it if they the characters didn't call themselves Spartans every few minutes.
Give it a miss and consider yourself lucky for doing so!