Great if you like CGI gore. Pants if you wanted to see a film

Rating: 1/10 (7 July 2008)

This is a really awful movie. For a start, Persians were not/are not black, and the Persian empire never extended to Africa, yet the 'villains' of this movie look strikingly similar to the orcs from Lord of the Rings.
Secondly, the battles - which are abundant in this film - have no sense of scale, there don't appear to be any formations or tactics. They consist of lots of black orcs running around a battle field never attacking anyone, waiting for, what looks like about a dozen Spartans wearing thongs to spear them. As if this wasn't torture enough, most of the battles are filmed in slow motion, to make sure you catch all of the dismembered limbs, heads and intestines spilling all over the place.
Last of all, there's no plot, the story goes like this; evil Persians attack Sparta and they have a fight. Blood is spilt. The end. It's vacuous, brainless, visual tripe which probably took ten minutes to write, a week to film, and a year in post production adding all the effects. Atrocious