The movie is excellent in it's grandiose production values, but fails to make the audience empathize with any of it's characters, because of mediocre acting(or extreme over-acting, I should say), repetitive dialogues and a mundane script. But the sets alone are worth the 8 bucks one pays to see the movie, since they are probably the best I've seen ever!(and that includes competition from Star Wars, LOTR etc)!