Me man, me watch film!

Rating: 8/10 (29 March 2007)

This film is not a piece of art as some may say... it is well constructed, beautifully filmed, and will grab your attention! The imagery is amazing, as through-out the film i never once looked towards a background or back drop and thought 'thats just a green screen or cgi effect' even though i knew it was! I also have read people, namely first viewers and critics, walked out of the cinema angry and shouting things about the film on a political scale, comparing to our present world and events with Iraq... etc. I feel they have missed the point entirely on this one (unless the director or Mr Miller had other ideas in which i will kindly step back on). This is made for just damn right fun! To me, this is a type of film i have been missing in my life for a while now in my local cinema... a good old fashioned 'blokey movie'!!! In the eighties and nighties we had Arnie, Stallone, Van Damme creations! General films in which we would get one main genre... action! These films would be cool, but cheesy, with cool, but cheesy one liners, and have a cool, but generally cheesy, one man army or against the odds type of plot. Really nothing that springs to my mind in this decade of cinema has filled this void. (but do let me know if i've forgotten any.... the matrix was 1999 and the sequels were, lets face it, money hungry let downs, just in case anyones thinks of that one!!!) This has violence, action, and nudity in a nice tidy bundle of fun and joy!... no swearing that i can remember though now thinking about it, or nothing that struck out to me (does 'whore' count?!)! This is for a male audience mainly, and why not? we get to take the ladies to something that isn't a 'chick flick' or 'girlie friendly'. They can look at big musclely dudes while we (the guys) watch the musclely dudes chop each others arms, legs,and heads off! 'Come on luv, Who needs wimpy, well spoken Orlando when you can enjoy this bunch of bloodthirsty beefcakes!!!! WAAAARRRRR!!!' The director impresses me, i enjoyed 'Dawn of the running around Dead' and i enjoyed this film even more. He's managed to use Frank Miller and place him into his own possible genre of 'Miller Time!'(please don't sue) Anything this guy creates through graphic novel must be filmed in this style, namely green screen! (Thank you Robert, good shout!) This is a nice and enjoyable touch of epic fun, ignore history fact and give us the basic idea fiction! I'm not here to learn much, i just want to enjoy the ride and cheer the underdogs! The only major problem with this film is that it may insight rioting once you leave the cinema... THIS IS THE SPARTAN WAY!!!!!!