They gave their last breath to defend it!

Rating: 10/10 (28 July 2008)

This movie is a great and almost perfect conversion of Frank Miller's comic book. You should keep in mind that this movie is neither a documentary nor a historical disquisition about the battle of thermopylae. It's just a bloody ACTION MOVIE with lots of special effects. The battles are visually stunning, grandiose staged, well-choreographed and breath-taking. You can admire the fights in slow- and fast motion and with good background sounds. Gerard Butler's (Leonidas) performance was incredible, nobody fits better in the role of Leonidas! Of course there are not many dialogues in which he's involved but then, at last, when he screams "THIS IS WHERE WE HOLD'EM. THIS IS WHERE WE FIGHT AND THIS IS WHERE THEY DIE!" you will know why he's the perfect Leonidas. This movie is also full of symbols: The arrow's will blot out the sun, armies cause the earth to tremble, soldiers are moving like gazelles...In my opinion this is movie is pure entertainment and the new benchmark of bloody action movies. The cinema... THIS IS WHERE THEY FIGHT. THIS IS WHERE WE WATCH THEM.