A teenage boy's wet dream

Rating: 2/10 (28 July 2007)

This film was an utter mess. Sure, the CGI was impressive, but it looked obviously computer generated. Most audience members would not be able to sit through this film, which relies totally on mass carnage almost the entire way through without a hint of story or character development. The only way this film has garnered the acclaim it has is from the 17 and under boys rating it an 11 out of 10.
The slow-mo kills and decapitations were overdone and the CGI 6-packs on all the Spartan soldiers looked so fake that it took away from the believability of the army.
Gerard Butler is a better actor than this and Hollywood has to learn that to rely 100% on the CGI to carry your film is not the way to go. In some scenes you can easily tell the actors have been mapped into a 3-D background. A sorry excuse for a film that no doubt appeals to the lowest common denominator.