poorly pulled off

Rating: 3/10 (7 June 2007)

This movie is clearly for the action buffs of the world, or for young women who have nothing else to do but look at ripped abs in a movie all day. That aside, this movie is bland. The characters in this movie are presented poorly and one dimensional. I am a huge Frank Miller fan after seeing SIn City and I expected no less from this incarnation of his work. Clearly I was wrong. Everything that worked for SIn City seems to play against this movie. The action was nicely done and the slow motion in those sequences were very pleasing to the eye. That said, that is where the slo mo should have stopped. It seems that every time they show a human on the screen that isn't computer generated, they want to slow them down. I understand this is for a comic book look and feel but after a while I want to press fast forward to see what the movie is like in regular speed. I wont say anything regarding the historical inaccuracies because I realize it is a comic book adaptation and you must allow for inaccuracies when dealing with a fantasy and thats fine with me. Also I wont say the movie is racist because it is a comic book like I said before and I could care less if it depicts the Persians wrongly because its one mans perspective. For all its faults the action couldn't save it. The dialog was so cheesy and lame I almost wanted ear plugs so that I could enjoy the movie. I mean seriously, I would rather watch the Passion of the Christ or apacolypto and hear a language I don't understand than to hear the same old phrases taken from every other epic movie and cut and pasted onto this movie. SO for all the hype this movie received and for all the reviews I received from my friends, I cant say it was enjoyable.