300 Movie Review

Directed by Zack Synder, 300 relies on its uncomparable battle scenes that anyone can resist to.he film never pretends to be true to the truth, which would have been fine, if the writers could have made up a better story than the truth, which they didn’t. The real story was that the doomed heroes bought time for the Greek navy to defeat the Persians, not that their martyrdom inspired a future battle that defeated them.

Speaking of Persians, was Xerxes really gay? He certainly acts like a drag queen in this film. The whole effect would have been much better if bad guy actor Rodrigo Santoro had read up on Caligula and tried to act bad instead of talking like a angry teenager.

After losing thousands of soldiers to Sparta’s several hundred, the real Xerxes was so deranged with fury that he cut off Leonidas’ head and crucified what was left of him. Now that would have made a good ending!

Instead we have his trembling lower lip when Leo almost skewers him with a last-minute spear. These people were nasty, nasty, nasty! What we needed here was Jack Nicholson in “The Departed” or Joe Pesci in “Goodfellas,” not Michael Caine in “Dirt Rotten Scoundrels.”

The best line in the movie goes to a good guy, though, for a change. When Leo is informed that Persian arrows would be so thick as to "blot out the sun” he sarcastically replies, "So much the better, we shall fight in the shade." Very classy. 300 is a movie blood-drunk on its own artful excess. Guys of all ages and sexes won't be able to resist it.

Our Rating :7.2/10