Exciting, intense...insulting?

Rating: 8/10 (22 June 2008)

Firstly I'm going to say i do not believe this rubbish about racism, as many people with an IQ have already stated it is told from a Spartans point of view so the narrator is not going to be fair to his enemy now is he? Anyway I'm grateful for this film, the high fuel action, the artistic scenery, score and costume and of course the overacting and dedication to Miller's original comic. It really captures this fantastic depiction of a war in a way thats never been done before. However, i feel that it perhaps simplifies the Spartans to some testosterone injected metal heads. I hate seeing people write about how "cool" it would be to be a spartan as if their life was a big rock and roll festival, i would have loved to have seen some complexity, or the reasons as to why the Spartans are the way they are. It does make me sad to see these fantastically skilled unique and dedicated to their cause people be parodied in terrible "films" (meet the Spartans, seriously what is with that?) But in the end maybe I'm looking to far into a film that is quintessentially an action film, and a fantastic one at that, and i cant blame the film for these morons going around shouting SPARTA!! all the time, guess ill have to wait for a gates of fire film...