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Spartan (2004) | User Rating
(91 votes) | Critic Rating
(17 reviews) |
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Directed by
David Mamet Written by
David Mamet Cast
Tia Texada, Derek Luke, Val Kilmer, Jeremie Campbell, Bob Jennings [more]
Release Date
• USA: Mar 12, 2004
• UK: 6 Aug 2004
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 8, 2005
• R2: 21 Feb 2005
Budget USD 30,000,000
BoxOffice: $4.3M
Official Website:
Spartan Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for violence and language.
Running Time
1 hour, 46 minutes
Country USA, Germany
Production Companies
ApolloMedia, ApolloProMedia GmbH & Co. 1. Filmproduktion KG (I), Art Linson Productions, Epsilon Motion Pictures, Franchise Pictures, QI Quality International GmbH & Co. KG, Signature Pictures, Spartan Productions Inc.
Studio Apollo Media, Apollo Promedia, Art Linson Productions, Franchise Pictures, Indelible Pictures, Phoenix Pictures, Quality Intl., Signature Pictures
More info on IMDb.com
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• Spartan (2004)
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Spartan Reviews |
David Mamet's "Spartan" is a so-so thriller that has all the Mamet touches - tough guys, sharp dialogue, surprise twists. The only problem - and it dooms the movie to mediocrity - is that the film's big plot surprise comes at the end of the second act and Mamet has absolutely no idea where to take the movie from there. So what we get are increasing levels of silliness. [read review] 
-- (L.A. Daily News)
This film moves quickly, doesn't take the time to explain every detail to the audience and tosses enough cryptic dialogue in there to confuse anyone, but if you enjoy mystery flicks with lots of dark shadows, hard-ass pursuers, immoral bad guys and conspiracies all around, check out SPARTAN and email me to let me know why Ed O'Neill doesn't get more serious movie gigs. Great man. [read review] 7/10
-- (JoBlo.com)
Mamet has a talent for giving you just enough detail to keep you deeply engrossed and hungry for more. In a way, "Spartan" is a 106-minute round of riverboat poker, with the stakes piling ever higher in the middle of the table. It's just too bad movies can't be just like poker games, where a good gambler can walk away with his winnings without having to lay down his cards. "Spartan" has to follow the Hollywood house rules: full disclosure. As soon as Mamet does that, he comes up short. [read review]
--Desson Thomson (Washington Post)
Oozing the paranoid atmosphere of the great '60s/'70s political thrillers by directors such as John Frankenheimer, it's still Mamet all the way down to the irony-drenched core. Happily, the filmmaker reins in his tendency toward the dizzying plot over-twisting that made "Heist" and "The Spanish Prisoner" a little too clever for their own good. [read review] 
--Michael Tunison (Boxoffice Magazine)
Spartan is a political thriller much in the "Mamet thriller" mold. Like House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, and Heist, this movie features a number of twists and turns, a few of which aren't remotely plausible, but which, if you go along for the ride, result in an entertainingly over-the-top tale of good, evil, sex, and betrayal (all the things we go to the movies for). [read review] 
--James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
The particular pleasure of "Spartan" is to watch the characters gradually define themselves and the plot gradually emerge like your face in a steamy mirror. You see the outlines, and then your nose, and then you see that somebody is standing behind you, and then you see it's you -- so who is the guy in the mirror? [read review] 
--ROGER EBERT (Chicago Sun-Times)
For most of its running time ''Spartan,'' a political thriller with the lonely, aching, slightly musty soul of a film noir, is a vigorous and engrossing genre exercise that manages the difficult trick of being both logically meticulous and genuinely surprising. Its elaborately implausible story gestures now and then toward an idea, but the movie's main concern is technique. [read review]
--A. O. SCOTT (The New York Times)
It's rare that Mamet both writes and directs a film, as he's done here, and his work--full of twists, double entendres and sleight of hand--is constantly engaging and challenging, even when it decides to bend reality later on. Enjoy the ride. [read review] B+
-- (E! Online)
Great acting? Check. Great script with unpredictable twists and turns? Check. Script well-executed by a director who doesn't let style overwhelm storytelling? Check. The kind of movie that has you – at the end – going "FUCK YEAH!"? Check. [read review] 9/10
-- (CHUD.com)
"Spartan" takes aim at the perceived moral corruption of the current White House, but the story is so ludicrous and the tone so hysterical, it's hard to imagine anyone taking it personally. [read review] 
--Jack Mathews (New York Daily News)
Is "Spartan" a perfect, or even a great, movie? Probably not. But in its prickly irascibility and deeply unsettling intelligence, it makes for a very, very good one. [read review]
--Michael O'Sullivan (Washington Post)
Val Kilmer delivers his lines like they're beat poetry in this thoroughly Mametized -- but not very thrilling -- search-and-rescue thriller. [read review]
-- (Salon)
As a thriller, Spartan will hold your attention, but unfortunately writer/director's David Mamet's style doesn't fit well in this milieu. [read review]
--Kit Bowen (Hollywood.com)
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