Brilliant yet un-interesting

Rating: 5/10 (11 March 2007)

If your a moviegoer who likes bad acting, bullet time fighting, inaccurate historical events, guys in costumes and sex scenes then this is the movie for you. i gave this movie a 5 out of 10 because i actually watched this thing on the history channel about how the battle really went down and a historical movie that was suppose to show it didn't do a very god job. for example the ships were suppose to be in the artemisium straight which is NE of thermopylae and there were spartan ships that stopped them there till the storm happened. another thing that wasn't historically correct was the fact that the Persians brought in cavalry.that would have just been stupid because they were to be fighting in such close quarters of thermopylae. Next, the movie didn't really start going till about 45 minutes into the film and that was the first fight scene which i was really anticipating but after i saw it i thought it was a waste of 10-15 minutes because it was done almost completely in bullet time so the 10-15 minutes was actually about a 5 minute fight and that was also historical wrong because the Spartans broke their ranks and moved out of the pass which is something they didn't do. during the fight with the immortals the Spartans were spread out and how it was actually done was to stand in formation, a wall of shields and stab your spear over the top. plus the real immortals (givin their name because when one fell there was another to take their place) wore cloth cloths and cloth around their heads and used woven bamboo shields and spears. Lastly you could tell that the "monsters" were people in suits because the skin looked so cloth like. well thats the end and all in all i wouldn't waste your money on seeing this in theaters. Just wait for the DVD to come out