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I've read about it, heard about it, but when I finally saw it it blew my mind away. Shot entirely on a "green" screen it didn't looked cheap and cheesy. It looked transplanted from an animated comic strip!

Basically a simple story of how a small army stood up to a huge army for days blocking a path that leads to their homeland in the historic Battle of Thermopylae. When they were finally wiped out they had demoralized their enemy to such an extend that they packed up and turned back, thereby saving their homeland with the sacrifice of their lifes.
I have to say that the Persians were really stupid to insist on sending their soldiers head-on against the Spartans even after several defeats, including the use of rhinos and war elephants.
When finally the Spartans were overwhelmed it was with rain of arrows from all around, negating the protection of the Spartans' shields.

Expect lots of abs as these Spartans ashews plate armour in favour to light clothing in a disdain for armour protection, Spartans were brought up as a warrior state and from a young age, the males started training in the arts of war. Ok, those abs made me feel very inferior but I can take consolation in that while many of the actors do have good abs, those abs were "highlighted" and defined to exaggerate their sharp definition.

Expect lots of really cartoonic blood and gore with stylist blood spurting, arms and legs being chopped off as well as one of the most explicit head-chopping scene in recent movie history.
I do take exception to the liberties taken with the seeming ease of sword and spear piercing the body in as if the body was made of jello. Stick-and-pull out and blood spurts.
The fighting was stylistic in similar vein to Brad Pitt's Troy (Two-Disc Special Edition) with the stylish sword and shield fighting and Matrix's slo-mo. The last seems a bit over done.

Overall, an incredible experience and one of 2007's "great-must-see-must-collect" movies.

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Rating of 4.5/5