Just not good enough

Rating: 2/10 (12 September 2012)

What a waste of money this probably is. The movie looks expensive to be made, but the result is not good at all. The pictures of the landscapes are beautiful, the costumes look good, but the fighting and killing is so far over the top and just stupid and brutal. And the story is the worst part: very very very thin. It looks like there was no attempt made to wright a good story. It's just about shooting as many action scenes as possible, with as much (bloody) violence as possible. Just like movies as '300' you get a bit of a feeling that you are watching fascist-like violence tributes. Some scenes are so cliché and so stupid, you can't believe it was really meant that way. It's a pity, because it could have worked with a better story and a less over the top fighting. I love historic movies, especially about ancient Greece or Rome, but this was a big disappointment.