Absolute guy's movie from beginning to end!! Yes!!

Rating: 9/10 (11 March 2007)

I have seen many reviews that say this is all blood and guts and not substance. So what! This is the first time in a long time that I have come out of a theater absolutely pumped. It is adrenaline, testosterone pumping from beginning to end.
Gerrad Butler's King Leonidas makes Russell Crowe's Maximus look like a choir boy in comparison! Butler spits out every single line and you buy it all along with his men. David Wenham's narration gives weight to the already heavy images. This was an absolute joy to watch.
Yes, there are a lot of hard-bodies in this. If you didn't show up to work on this gig with a 6-pack, ripped chest and bulging shoulders and biceps, you might as well stayed home. This was a graphic novel brought to life in every sense. There is the blood spattering, the extended fighting, the preening, everything that you read a graphic novel for and enjoy is there, now, with motion. Everything is predictable about the film (of course for those that have read the novel) but the uninformed will not be surprised much by the story, but the absolute joy that is in the violence is what gets you amped up.
The music by Tyler Bates leads the charge. It is violent, it is loud, it is bombastic, it is an absolute fitting match to the images.
Not much else to say other than get out and see this in the theater, if you can, in DLP, and have a fantastic time watching pure carnage!