dull, slow, and not very interesting in any way

Rating: 3/10 (7 April 2007)

I'm not going to be verbose. Let's just say that this movie isn't good in any way. Here's why:
[*] The soundtrack is inconsistent. [*] The direction is sloppy. Many unclean cuts and sometimes you get the feeling that there are scenes missing, just because they would be too expensive to make without CGI [*] All characters lack depth, and the Persian king reminds me of HIM in the Powerpuff Girls [*] The movie as a whole lacks depth, story and splatter (enough of it to make it a good splatter movie) [*] It feels like the creators watched Braveheart, Gladiator and LOTR, and tried to put those concepts into a blender, with undesirable results.
It might be a good movie for 7-12 year olds who want to see a hack'n'slash movie though, but outside the scope of that, I doubt it appeals to anyone else. If you want to see a really good B-movie, which doesn't have any ambitions to be anything else than that, watch Attack/return of the killer tomatoes.