EXACTLY what I hoped for

Rating: 7/10 (9 March 2007)

I just got back from seeing a 7:15 screening of this movie, and I must say- It was the best movie I ever saw.
I wonder why the snore-fests "Troy" and "Alexander" couldn't be more like this movie. It's everything that a mythology-based movie should be like. This movie will inevitably blow any other historical crap off the map.
The movie begins with the history of King Leonidas. Ever since he was a child, he was exposed to such unusual cruelty. Now, he is a king, and is bringing an army of 300 Spartans against Persians. He climbs to a mountaintop, and finds a woman, who does a dance for him, and foretells that an army amongst them is ready to attack. Now, it's up to him and his army of 300 brave men.
This is ultimately an epic story told on a SWEEPING scale. The visuals are cool, the cinematography is amazing, and the story is apocryphal with an ending with King Leonidas' self-sacrifice that had me hanging on the edge of my seat.
Now I would NOT recommend this for the young ones, as it is INCREDIBLY violent and gory. What it does do is recreate a violent country in a violent mythological time.
Check it out!