Oops, I just gave away the end of the film. Never fear, there's plenty in the middle, not that I can remember much. Much of this movie, it seems to me, is paced too slowly. One of the things I enjoyed immensely about this movie though, are the battle scenes. They seemed to be very well played out, and without a ton of gore, unlike similar scenes in Gladiator.

Other than that though, I felt the movie was just too formulaic. I can understand that this movie is probably one that helped to define a lot of the formulas that it played out, but watching it now, it just seemed to not have the greatness that I was expecting.