I watched this movie today, this is my review: ;D
Sound effect:
*****Battle scheme:
*****Special effect:
*****Make up:
*****True to the historical document:
* (only one, I will explain)
The rape scene only last about one minute, and I do not get to see anything, maybe I am watching an all-cut version and Cuaresma1971 watched the un-cut version?
The king's wife was raped, but later, she killed the bastard during the senate (I actually applauded when she killed the bastard, people in the theater might think -- I am a nut. )
What I like the most about the movie, is when the king went to the temple and tried to consult the Oracle, there was a woman awoke and danced over there, it is OUT of this world. For this scene, worths every penny. And I like the Persian king's outfit, and his women in his palace, the dancing part, very entertaining.
And if you like video games, this movie is for you, because it has lots of video games figures, like people were born defected and enormous sizes in this film.
What I dislike about this film is: It is showing against historical facts, the person who did the Spartan movie ...history searching... the resource is wrong. How wrong is it?
Spartan is famous, one of the reason is because they are the first people/warriors who invented the "Armor suit" like this one.
www.swordsandarmor.com/mall/breastplate-wearable-muscle.htmAnd at that time, no country was advanced enough to invent the Armor, that was why they could have 300 Spartans to fight 30,000 men with swiping success, and they were the first warriors who used spears, back then no one use spears.
After a long time, countries in their era, studied Spartan and found out this is the major secret why Spartan is so strong, and eventually use the same skill to kill the Spartan, this is why Rome used the same technique like this one:
www.swordsandarmor.com/mall/Roman.htmThen France Emperors used the same technique as:
www.swordsandarmor.com/medieval-knight-suit-of-armor.htmlThey all learned it from the Spartan. But in this movie, the warriors are all
bare-chested, it is not what they are famous for, the movie producer must mistaken the '
shield' for the '
chest Armor.'
During a battle field, shield is not good enough, in the movie, the Spartan has showed lots of weakness. The short sword is good for body to body combat fighting, but not good for the long range, their legs, chests, showed lots of weakness in this movie.
But not many movie viewers know this, so this movie is still successful.
I warn you, it is very bloody, lots of killing schemes.
Also, the value of Spartan is their spirit:
BROTHERHOOD, AND FIGHT TO DEAD TO DEFEND THEIR FREEDOM.
But there are two scenes that I do not like, which the Spartan king killed the massager which is wrong, and one scheme when the Persian king asked him to kneel, and he did, although he knelt because he wanted to pretend that he obeyed, but there is really no sense of doing so, my opinion anyway.
But in historical point, this film can only get 2 stars, but when judging a movie (you just watch this one as a MOVIE, forget about its historical valve).
Then this film gets,
Five Stars!!