ok i started to read all of the previous pages and i am just going to ignore all of it because it seems like useless banter. so instead i will just give my honest opinion.
i watched this film for the 6th or 7th time and i have to say that, even though it didnt persicly follow the turn of events in history this is still a great movie.

the action in this movie was great, smooth, and you can usually see everything that is going on in the frame, which i loved. most films just focus on the front runner but 300 panned out and focused on brutal bloodshed wide screen style, rarely just focusing on 1 or 2 characters score 10/10.

the score of the film was amazing, i was supprised at the diversity of music in the film. score 8.5/10.

the visuals of this film are breathtaking, i would love to take some of the scenery of 300 and paint the walls of my appartment using the backdrops. eventhough they do look CGI generated at times. i can say for eye candy purposes this film gets a perfect 10/10

acting! sucked hahaha j/k the acting in this film wasnt bad but it wasnt great by anymeans, there where high points in which i was motivated to stab someone in the face with a huge spear and other moments when iwas just nehhh but over all i think the actors did a greaet job with the formations and overall convinging me that they where spartan soldiers. character movement and fighting was like that of a well oiled machine and ive got to give them props for that. so all in all for just acting purposes i give it a 6/10 but mix in the charater fighting portayals and its bumped to a 9/10

the story is what i expected, 300 VS 10s of thousands. not much more you can do with it unless you want to seriously try to change history and piss off a bunch of people (more then they appearently did) who want a movie to be the exact reoccurance of what really happened. but over all i am not going to judge this movie on the comparison to history i am going to base it off the fact that it is a MOVIE. i loved the conspiricies that played out in sparta while the 300 where gone was about typical but well played out. the 3rd person perspective was great but also a little on the stupid side because
Spoiler:
he tells you exactly what happened even though he has no idea because at that point he had already left the battle front
but all n all id have to give the film..... 8.5/10!

uncaught blooper - did you catch it - when in the battle where they "fight in the shade" did you notice that leonitus threw his spear and starts fighting with his sword but when he comes back up from hiding he breaks the arrows off his sheild with dun nuh nuh nuhhhh his spear! wow hes good. magical recalling/appearing spear move or changing sword to spear move!!!!!!!