It's got very good production standards - blending the Greek/Roman/Egyptian architecture for that period.

There was just a talk in London tonight about the depiction of Greek astronomy in the movie and what the many objections were to a heliocentric system.

It's quite unflinching in its depiction of Christianity as the harbinger of the Dark Ages. You don't see that too often in big budget movies where faith almost always triumphs over reason ('Luke you switched off your targeting computer').

Ya, wtf, how did I never hear of this? There's been like 0 mention of it anywhere, and it looks HUGE in scale. I know hollywood is scared of religion bashing movies, but damn. I mean Kingdom of Heaven got made/marketed, and that's a movie where all the protagonists are basically agnostics/atheists trying to stop the religious extremists (to be fair some of that stuff is only in the director's cut).