Battle scenes are terrific- Spoilers

Rating: Null/10 (3 March 2004)

OK, the battles are wonderful and worth the price of admission. Heck, they're worth 10x the price of admission and also worth the tedium of sitting through this borefest. The entire movie was, in a word, silly. OK two words - overwrought and silly too. This is like one over long Star Trek episode where the central characters can throw away lives of the bit players at will because the movie only focuses on the repaeating cast. So the kings and sorcerer and other players think nothing of essentially tossing away the lives of all their subjects and those subjects, we're supposed to believe, support these characters.
Worse, these central characters are whingingly stupid. They do one stupid thing after another and nobody calls them on it. The things they do, like basic tactical errors in the battles, aren't just obvious in retrospect, but obvious when they occur.
One of the dozen endings of this movie has the people cheer as a new king gets himself crowned. Had this movie had a bit of integrity, they people would have risen up, overthrown the worthless set of royals and instituted a commune instead.
I was waiting for that ending, but it didn't show up. Maybe in the DVD.