I recently went to watch it. Kinda underwhelming; somehow I thought there should have been more over the top battle scenes, but when they have those money shots with the really cool and big creatures, they all die from one-shot kills.

Plus, there' s that gawd damn slow-mo effect. It didn' t work for the Matrix, and it as hell didn' t help here.

I got seriously bored from the battle scenes so much that I looked forward to the scenes with Leonidas wife and the politics of Sparta.

Oh, and the Persian King? He' s supposed to be a giant, but you only see that in ONE scene. The rest of the time the director forgot and the proportions made him a normal looking man =/

That said, only when the God of War movie is made in 2007 will we see something truly brutal and epic AND fun.