One of the worst films ever!

Rating: 1/10 (9 February 2008)

Fortunately I watched this film on DVD so I could fast-forward through a lot of it. The director and screen-writer must be Nazi sympathizers because of their portrayal of the "white" Greeks taking on the "black" Persians, and their obvious approval of euthanasia in protecting the Spartan "purity". I wonder how they would explain the ultimate downfall of the Spartan, and Greek, civilization in ancient times? The Spartans are like the Nazi "uebermenschen" taking on the inferior Africans and other dark skinned peoples. Only the treachery of a handicapped "untermenschen" could bring them down. This film is a thinly veiled attempt by the extreme right to portray the Persians, i.e. Iranians, an Indo-European group of people, as inherently evil. What a piece of trash!