Gory!! but that's what we wanted to see

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2007)

This is a great action movie which for me had a slightly disappointing final battle. the actions scenes are gory and explicit in there detail with many a warrior losing his head (quite literally). Gerard Butler gives a strong performance as the King and leader of the spartans, and his support cast of mainly unknowns give there all as the action moves from swiftly along. the dialogue is solid if unspectacular but all we really want to see is how many Persian hordes are killed and how. the story differs slightly from the 1960's version in that the 'villan' is actually a spartan rather than a slave, but that is just detail and in a spectacularly graphic film that his not what you have come to see.