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Spartan (film)

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Spartan
Directed by David Mamet
Produced by David Bergstein
Moshe Diamant
Art Linson
Elie Samaha
Written by David Mamet
Starring Val Kilmer
Derek Luke
William H. Macy
Music by Mark Isham
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) March 8, 2004
Running time 106 min.
Language English
IMDb profile

Spartan is an American political thriller film written and directed by David Mamet and starring Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Ed O'Neill, Tia Texada, and Kristen Bell. It was released in America and Canada in March 2004.

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[edit] Plot

Robert Scott (Val Kilmer) is a cold efficient operative, and former Master Gunnery Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps , training special forces recruits for a covert special operations unit of the United States Military including trainees Curtis (Derek Luke) and knife-fighting instructor Jackie Black (Tia Texada). When Laura Newton (Kristen Bell), a Harvard student and first daughter of the President is abducted, the Secret Service, intent on keeping the abduction a secret because of the dire political consequences, enlist Scott as their field operative to recover her before the press would inevitably learn of her disappearance next Monday when she's due back in school (only in two days).

The frantic investigation finds a lead to blondes-smuggling ring to the Middle East but fails to conclude by the deadline. After the fact of her abduction becomes publicly known, just as the party is preparing for a flight to the region on rescue mission, reports emerge that Laura Newton's body with that of her college professor was discovered aboard a sailboat off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The task force disbands and Scott returns home, only to be approached by Curtis who proves that Newton is still alive. Scott conducts his own investigation and learns that the President arrived in Boston to conduct an extramarital affair and took Laura's Secret Service detail for extra protection, leaving her vulnerable to kidnapping by local pimps, who sold her to a sexual slavery ring run out of Dubai. The Secret Service engineered the press briefing and the announcement of Laura Newton's death to shield him from the political fallout that would result should the press discover his involvement in her kidnapping. Upon learning this, Jackie convinces Scott to go after her.

Without company support and presumed dead by the Secret Service following an assassination attempt, Scott and Jackie fly to Dubai and mount an independent rescue operation. The operation is successful, but as Scott prepares to take her home, he discovers his equipment bugged by the Secret Service, who pursue him into an airplane hangar. Scott shoots his way past the team and loads Laura onto a Swedish journalist's private plane, but Jackie is killed in the gunfight. Days later in London, a stoic and disguised Scott watches on television as Laura disembarks from a plane into the waiting arms of her father.

[edit] Cast

Actor Role
Val Kilmer Robert Scott
Derek Luke Curtis
Tia Texada Jackie Black
Kristen Bell Laura Newton
William H. Macy Stoddard

[edit] Reception

Spartan received mixed but generally good reviews and has a score of 65% on Rotten Tomatoes and 60% on Metacritic. Roger Ebert in The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a four-star rating saying that "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."[1] Tim Robey in The Daily Telegraph felt the film was let down by a "botched" finale, "as though Mamet felt obliged to reproduce a standard-issue Tom Clancy climax while knowing that this wasn't the way to go."[2]

[edit] Trivia

  • The title and events in the film allude to Leonidas I, king of Sparta who, when a neighbor state requested military aid, would send one man. As Scott puts it, "One riot, one ranger." Mamet had previously included this line in House of Games. The remark is also part of the lore of the Texas Rangers.
  • Eric L. Haney, a career Army non-commissioned officer and member of Delta Force, was a technical advisor and had a small cameo in the film. After Spartan, Haney and Mamet went on to collaborate on The Unit, a television series about a fictional highly secret special operations unit of the United States Army modelled on Delta Force.
  • David Mamet's Rabbi, Mordechai Finley, also has a cameo appearance as one of Val Kilmer's fellow Cadre operators

[edit] References

  1. ^ Spartan Film Review by Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (online), 12 March, 2004
  2. ^ House of cards tumbles down by Tim Robey, The Daily Telegraph (online), 6 August, 2004

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