An artificial history!

Rating: 2/10 (14 October 2008)

The scenes are amazing but the story is childish. There is a minimal wisdom in the whole movie story. Let me begin with one of the obvious ones: After the Spartans Queen killed Theron in front of Greek Senates, some Persian coins fell off from him on the ground. Why should he take the "enemy's" coins into the Senate Hall and where was he supposed to expense the coins in Greece?! One more inconsistency in the story is about the first attack by arrows to Spartans that made many holes on all of their shields and cloaks. Why later on we saw most of the shields and cloaks without any holes on them?! Let me continue by saying that the Persian army in the movie was a mixture of Arabic soldiers wit turbans, some Chinese style masking faces and some Indian elephant riders. Where are the Persian soldiers whose realistic uniforms are engraved on the Persepolise stones for three thousand years? In general I rate this fantasy movie a well-made artificial history at the right political time!