Very difficult to find value

Rating: 2/10 (4 November 2007)

There aren't many attributes which are worth analyzing in this movie. The script is terrible. "you break my heart, you men, afraid" wow. compelling. There are segments where bickering breaks out, yet there is no repartee, just people yelling -- oh, and swelling music.
fact there are so many voice overs throughout the movie clearly indicate there are some serious problems with storytelling.
As far as I can tell, there is no continuity. Not with the scenes or dialog or emotions they attempt to portray.
The thinly veiled sexual confusion present in the characters is embarrassing.
The wigs are fantastically terrible, and so very confusing for ancient Greece. The accents are strange and variable.
There is no feeling that it is even attempting to portray the any sense of the period, except for the presence of Greek mythology in some of the dialog. The movie isn't quite epic, though it probably cost as much as an epic film. Even though it is lacking in historical value and reference, I thought it could have been fun as an epic. Alas no.
I had heard it was bad, but I was willing to give it a chance. I feel I can marshall preconceptions to some extent, but this film was impossible to see any other way.