A mighty and powerful motion picture

Rating: 9/10 (31 August 2007)

Great performances, interesting story-telling, and smashing music, plus a little wit, brings this movie to life, based on the comic book, which is based on the Spartan legend. The story of a Spartan king, King Leonidis, who leads a troop of 300 Spartans to fight the Persians. The Immortals are nothing but grotesque beasts compared to the Spartans. The film has some memorable quotes "Spartans! Prepare for Glory!" "Tonight, we shall bathe in blood!" "Spartans! Tonight nobody dies!" The film has some historical facts that Spartans raise their children to be great warriors. This is true! Not to mention the fact that the Persians want to them to be slaves. The film has Quasimodo-like Spartan that gets rejected from the clan, and ends up with the Persians. There is plenty of blood and gore throughout the movie. I haven't seen that much gore since GLADIATOR. The film's music has a use of electric guitars, so do not expect symphonic music in this film. It blew my mind away. I highly recommend it. Rated R for tons of violence, overplayed gore, and sexuality.