Expectations blown away

Rating: 10/10 (9 March 2007)

I'm a huge fan of anything Ancient Greece, so when I saw the preview for this during SAW 3 months ago, myself and every friend that was there agreed that we would see this movie as soon as it came out, so needless to say my expectations were high and only grew as the released date neared. When we arrived and met other groups of friends, I was worried that with multiple rows of us rowdy guys, not to mention the rest of a packed theater, it would be very loud and very hard to understand and concentrate for certain parts of the movie. But as soon as the movie started it became quite clear that everyone else was as captivated as I had dreamed of being for months. The only time I even remembered that I was in a packed theater and not in the middle of Ancient Greece was when the well placed witty remarks were made. Very rarely do movies live up to my high expectations, but this particular movie blew me away.