Shimmering bronze shields glisten in the morning twilight of battle, as muscle bound Spartans hoist them and their spears aloft to the deafening cries of their own boisterous vibrato. But despite all their might and fury, destiny, after ever so long, had finally deemed the fabled dogs of war unfit to sit atop their throne of conquest and skulls any longer. For unlike the storied events of the brave 300 at Thermopylae, The Battle of Leuctra was to be an embarrassing loss, striking the Spartans with a fatal blow so devastating that it would doom them to a slow, pitiful crawl towards their inevitable demise. Such is destiny, soon to be history, but what if you could change it? Mauricio Sanz's The Last Spartan is a mythic tale following the young Spartan soldier, Acosta Kaldis (Oscar Milito) as he prepares for the infamous Battle of Leuctra. Just like the rest of his Spartan brethren, he confidently boasts of a swift and decisive victory, but onl...