Visually attractive but tedious and inconsistent.

Rating: 3/10 (4 October 2011)

Xerxes and his hordes were brilliantly exotic, but endless scenes of people having their limbs chopped off should be attractive only t the juvenile game-player.
Inconsistency always gets my back up. Leonidas explains to the hunch back how he can't fight because Spartans win by standing in the shield-wall then we see everyone running about completely unprotected so we can have slo-mo limb-lopping.
Spartans are stern and tough, but when Captain whoever's son is killed he bursts into tears. The mighty hordes of Xerxes have a mighty lot of arrows, but only shoot them once, for effect.
No sorry, it was bollox ... it only gets 3/10 for the visuals.