Simply Awful

Rating: 1/10 (30 August 2005)

For once, the critics are right. This movie is not good.
Don't get me wrong. It's not the homosexuality that bothers me. It's not that I find this movie boring, either. What bothers me is the acting, or lack thereof.
None of the actors were any good, and throughout the movie, they consistently spewed out corny lines such as, "Conquer your fear, and I promise you, you'll conquer death!" Not to mention, such lines as "You love him?" Not only were all of the accents overdone and obnoxious, if they weren't involved in some cliché monologue, they were spewing lame one-liners.
While the action sequences were decent, they were few and far between to justify giving this movie more than one star. It would be one thing if this movie was only one hour and a half, or maybe two hours at most, but this was three hours of brutal overacting. Quite honestly, it was a pain to watch.
Now, onto the matter of the accents. While some people have noted that they would be speaking in Greek, and not in English, this does not change the fact that when Greeks speak English, they talk with a rather noticeable accent. They would not be speaking in an Irish accent, and they wouldn't be speaking in a Russian accent (Angelina Jolie). It wouldn't be too bad, but they were all over the top. The accents helped to make the movie quite tedious.
It's the only movie I've ever seen, that made we want to run out of the theater screaming. It's a movie I would never see again. In fact, it's a movie I would rather never see. Period.