Disappointing movie

Rating: 1/10 (1 April 2007)

This is classical American movie,with hi-tech special effects but with no sens at all for history and meaning of this historical event.It is shame that someone could make movie about some event in history and make so much mistakes.Mistakes are obvious,for example:Sparta had two kings,in movie only Leonidas(in movie he is about 30 or 40,but in real life hi was close to 60),Efori was elderly council not some monsters of oracle,spartan education was famous for their Laconic speech(short with no emotions),not some long heart-breaking sentences full with freedom speak nonsense so charatcteristic for American view of war and love;Spartans wear famous because of their combat tactic as phalanx,joint group force,not as movie shows,soldiers who run and slaughter on their own like Rambo or other American hero,Xserx who is 3 m high,bold,with million earringes in his body,monsters in the battle,immortals who are monsters too,savages in Persian army,and etc. This is too much for me to swallow. If we set a side historical mistakes,movie is nothing more then some B production action movie on steroids,which was meant to show how good guys come from the west and bad from the east.So typically for Hollywood war movies,and very alarming if we consider current American politics towards eastern countries(Iraq,Iran,Lebanon-former Persia).Is this movie a war propaganda for next U.S. intervention?Probably not,but it is suitable for average American view of freedom,love,politics and history. Acting is poor,scene is artificial and maybe the only good thing in the movie,directing average.Scene of combat catastrophic,with accent o blood thirsting soldiers,so false and ridiculous. At the and the only word that comes to my mind,to describe this film, is awful.