...I thought it would be good

Rating: 3/10 (10 March 2007)

First off, this movie is visually stunning and very well made. There, that's my praise for this. I'm not a person that enjoys seeing monsters or fantasy with my period pieces, but I am a big fan of period movies so, without knowing anything about it except that it was based on Thermopyle, I went to see it with my friend. Probably one of the worst mistakes I've made since going to see 'Bewitched' First off, I thought the Greeks won Thermopyle? And that Sparta helped Athens, which led to Athens becoming powerful, which led to the wars between Sparta and Athens (I won't attempt to spell Peloponnesian). Now I know that this is based off a novel, one that I probably won't read after seeing that fantasy comes into play. The dialogue was dry and cheesy at most, and (to me) there was needless sex scenes (well, not real sex scenes, but what else would you call them). It's like the people making this said, 'hey, mostly guys will like to see it, so here's there's blood and guts, but let's give them some cheap porn with that!
Because of the visual stuff it earns a 3, if the visual effects sucked, it wouldn't have gotten anything.
And that's my two cents.