Excellent movie.

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2007)

I found the movie excellent for what it claimed to be. A film adaptation of the graphic novel. Keeping in mind that a director is an artist then I expect of him not to remain in a safe path set by the graphic novel. Maybe, while reading the graphic novel, he thought of some things he would like added, excluded, or better portrayed.
I found the movie excellent because I think that it boosted Frank Miller's intention of presenting the battle as a no win fight for the Spartans, but a necessary one because of the consequences it may trigger (Naval battle in Salamis and battle in Plataeae), against an enemy with so much different a culture who wants to force his culture and way of living on the Greeks. In that aspect I found Snyder's additions (war rhino's, beast like Immortals, a decapitator with claws as hands) a helpful tool.
It is common knowledge that the Persians were not beast like, with a perverted courtyard. A history film must not portray them as such, but this film is allowed to do so. The same way it is allowed to portray the Ephors as a council of leper-like priests and the Spartan married women dressed in sexy clothing.