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Title: You either love Mamet or you hate him, apparently. . .
Review: I've read many of the negative reviews on this space, and while some of them are from disapointed Mamet fans, most of them appear to be folks who know nothing about the Pulitzer winning writer/director. If you love Mamet and simply adore the dialogue of films such as "Wag The Dog," "Ronin," (written under a pseudonym) and "The Edge," you'll like Spartan. I loved it. Of course the dialogue isn't realistic! Don't expect realism! In order to enjoy a film as "Mametized" as "Spartan," you need to forget reality and immerse yourself in the world Mamet has created -- a world which, much like the worlds of Wes Anderson (Rushmore) or The Coen Brothers (Intolerable Cruelty), grabs hold of stereotypes, cliche's, and the corniest of dialogue and twists those elements to make them entertaining again. From the reactions I see here on Amazon, this appears to be for Mamet fans only.
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