I can’t handle the gore. I find it really unnecessary because I wind up avoiding and missing good movies that I know will have gore in them. I wasn’t aware this one would be so gory so I was stuck watching it – or rather, I was stuck looking away for half the movie because if I didn’t, I may have thrown up. When will movie makers learn that they would reach a bigger audience if they didn’t put such blood and guts in. I realize they are trying to portray what a brutal time it was but you don’t need vivid images to get that across in my opinion. I have a lot of interest in ancient civilizations so I’d been looking forward to this movie – but I spent more time studying the ceiling then the movie.

As for historical inaccuracy, that bothered me too but at the time, I was just trying keep my lunch down.