A Huge Disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (20 March 2007)

I saw this movie, expecting it to be great, just like Sin City was. It wasn't. It was incredibly over stylized, it seemed to drown itself in 'style'. The fight scenes were sped up and only slowed down to show a spartan disemboweling an enemy soldier. There are only like three times in the entire movie that Spartans actually die. There was no continuity at any point in the movie The movie was also borderline racist. Throughout the movie, the Spartans, using no tactics or formations whatsoever, kill thousands of Persains with ease. All of Leonidas' talk of freedom also made the movie feel like a propaganda film. All in All, this was a horrible movie, mostly because they tried to pass it off as being based on fact when it was less realistic than the entirely fictional Sin City.