Spartan

Name: Spartan
Released: 2004-3-12
Cast: Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Ed O'Neill, Johnny Messner

Spartan

R
1h 47m
2004

65%

age 17+

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She's missing. When the daughter of the President of the United States is kidnapped, special ops officer Robert Scott (Val Kilmer) and his protégé, Curtis (Derek Luke), are assigned to find and rescue her. Their mission seems to come to an abrupt conclusion when the media reports the girl's death, but Curtis believes the girl is in fact alive ... And if she is, it can only mean there is a far more sinister and dangerous conspiracy originating within the White House itself. Written and directed by David Mamet (Heist, State and Main, The Winslow Boy).

Director:

David Mamet

Producer:

Writer:

David Mamet

Cast:

Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Ed O'Neill, Johnny Messner, Tia Texada, Kristen Bell

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

65%

Critics Consensus: A good cast and Mamet's mastery over the written language elevate an otherwise conventional thriller.

Reviews

New York Magazine/Vulture

Peter Rainer

The real violence, as is always the case with Mamet, lies not in the mayhem but in the thrusting r...

January 29, 2019

Observer

Andrew Sarris

Both technically accomplished and moderately entertaining.

August 16, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Salon.com

Stephanie Zacharek

Spartan is the same old stuff, but now it's been thoroughly Mametized, like a spray-on treatment y...

January 29, 2019

The New Republic

Stanley Kauffmann

Mamet's understanding of the essentials here and his skill in supplying them are not major achieve...

January 29, 2019

Observer

Rex Reed

Not one character makes sense, there is no shred of craft, and the script sounds like it was writt...

August 15, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 17+

Common Sense Says

Very violent movie ultimately just falls apart.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this movie has intense peril and a lot of graphic and explicit violence, including knives and guns, and many characters are killed. Characters smoke and drink and there are drug references. There are sexual references, including references to sexual slavery, and one mild and non-explicit sexual situation. A character commits suicide (though that is later called into question). As in almost all Mamet movies, characters use very strong language.