Positive Experience/Entertaining?? Yeah, but only in the same way that all "epic" films are entertaining--the whizbang factor. "Wow! Look at all those men fighting! Neat!"Technically any good? Well, if you consider movies with strong character development, solid stories and great execution "technically good" this is not the movie for you. The only thing impressive to me was the scale of the movie. It was BIG, but the script, acting were not and the story wasn't deep either. In fact, the script suffers from making neither side as bloodthirsty as they probably were.
How did it leave me feeling? Annoyed because if there's one filmmaker who can toss political correctness aside and tell it like it was, it's Ridley Scott. In Alien and Blade Runner he pulled no punches--but we didn't get that director for this movie, instead we got Tony's idiot brother who made the Christians out to be way nicer than they really were (yet still meaner than modern Christians would have liked) and the Muslims as way nicer, too. The film makes you wonder why they were fighting at all since they were all pretty reasonable folks.
Final Rating? DNS (In a world where movies cost $10 a pop, this movie should be MUCH better than it is. Unless you LOVED Troy and Alexander, don't bother with this one.)
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