I concur with the comments thus far. Also, the props were superb and the sheer energy of the movie's action and stunts was exhausting. The romantic elements were, with Medeleine Stowe was a nice touch. The first scenes were extraordinarily surreal. Now this is an excellent movie.

I never have watched movies/films/whatever for history lessons but for enjoying the spectacle. This article's accuracy is also erroneously obsessing with Calvary rather than cavalry, did itself no favours, especially since the famous event had been missed by approximately 1000 years. Moreover, had the Persian archer cavalry been used as the historian suggested, the movie would have been over, halfway through, which would have defeated the object of the movie, I.e. to making millions. This movie is an epic; and the historian should wind in his neck.