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Rating: 2/10 (25 March 2007)

Watched this in a local cinema last week, I have to say its a poor movie that tries hard to have the heart of Gladiator fused with the battle scenes of LOTR whilst employing the stop motion CGI of The Matrix, but failing miserably on all counts.
Set in sunny Greece yet not a single glimpse of a natural looking light, sea, sky or landscape its more like a synthetic animated canvass, but devoid of color. You soon tire of the 2 dimensional characters and the Spartans continuous chant of "Aruba Aruba" and the roaring outbursts from King Leonidas. But there's a stale, synthetic airlessness about it. There is no "shock and awe" of the LOTR here. My advice, don't waste your money on this over-hyped piece of celluloid,