Warmongering

Rating: 1/10 (29 March 2007)

Just as a side information: already Göring misused the battle of Thermopylae in a speech to appeal to that kind of mindless war euphoria while the German troops were about to perish in the hell of Stalingrad.
It just seems that this is an excellent example of a totally exaggerated form of heroism. But it's surely got nothing to with reality and the message it sends out is very dangerous. So think about that before diving into this movie's orgy of violence.
Maybe this sounds a bit lame and educational but I've been wondering for quite some while why on earth this sick competition of outdoing each other in the field of "artistic" violence, which to my impression started with "Pulp Fiction", has to go on and on and on. I already felt really bad after watching this films predecessor "Sin City". Has our life gotten so dull and numb that we constantly need this as a drug?