[johnjimbc]

I liked it! The settings were really captivating. It was nice to see a movie in which CGI was used to create a depiction of a real past setting (aside from Pyramids, that is). The story was quite good as well, although I have to say I didn't know the whole true back-story, which is very very dark and violent actually.

If you're going to go see it, don't wikipedia the real-life events or you may find it disappointing (because you'll know too much). But I just hadn't realized how dark the actual story was.

It did seem to go on for a bit, though, mainly because the real-life events did as well. But you sort of had to see the whole thing through to appreciate the real-life events. In other words, the story goes on for a few scenes beyond the main climac events so it is not as "neatly tied up" as a movie story is because they wanted to stay true to the actual events.

So, anyway, thumbs up from me. 3 1/2 stars (our of 4 ; ).

Of course, I liked Twilight as well, which is getting much more mixed reviews ; ).