Historical Action Adventure Dvd : 300 [2007]

300 [2007]

£2.64


Like Sin City before it, 300 brings Frank Miller and Lynn Varley s graphic novel vividly to life. Gerard Butler (Beowulf and Grendel, The Phantom of the Opera) radiates pure power and charisma as Leonidas, the Grecian king who leads 300 of his fellow Spartans (including David Wenham of The Lord of the Rings, Michael Fassbender, and Andrew Pleavin) into a battle against the overwhelming force of Persian invaders. Their only hope is to neutralise the numerical advantage by confronting the Persians, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), at the narrow strait of Thermopylae. More engaging than Troy, the tepid and somewhat similar epic of ancient Greece, 300 is also comparable to Sin City in that the actors were shot on green screen, then added to digitally created backgrounds. The effort pays off in a strikingly stylised look and huge, sweeping battle scenes. However, it s not as to-the-letter faithful to Miller s source material as Sin City was. The plot is the same, and many of the book s images are represented just about perfectly. But some extra material has been added, including new villains (who would be considered bosses if this were a video game, and it often feels like one) and a political subplot involving new characters and a significantly expanded role for the Queen of Sparta (Lena Headey). While this subplot by director Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead) and his fellow co-writers does break up the violence, most fans would probably dismiss it as filler if it didn t involve the sexy Headey. Other viewers, of course, will be turned off by the waves of spurting blood, flying body parts, and surging testosterone. (The six-pack abs are also relentless, and the movie has more and less nudity--more female, less male--than the graphic novel.) Still, as a representation of Miller s work and as an ancient-themed action flick with a modern edge, 300 delivers. --David Horiuchi

SPECTACULAR and EMOTIONAL - What can be said that hasnt? This is a beautiful movie but I only hope everyone saw it in theatres, the bigger the screen the better for this movie.The commentary is worth a listen but be warned they liked the movie on the big Imax screen too, and mention this a lot through out the movie how you can see more if its an Imax print. This made me feel a little cheated and I dont think they should have gone on about it so explicitly but that aside this is going to be a beautiful rich movie with style however big your screen is.As for emotional, my friends ,male and female both cried at the end of it.

Is it a comedy? - Is this film supposed to be funny,it must be the worst film i ve seen for ages.It s corny and a little camp.It s so bad that it s funny,probably funnier than meet the spartans.

Forget history - Forget history, forget politics, forget morality - just take this film for what it is - a cracking bit of fun!

Only as a warning... NO DTS Soundtrack - I did not want to say much about the film or the DVD, because both are without a doubt great and dearly recommended, but the description contains one flaw, cause it claims the DVD would have the DTS-Soundtrack on it, which it doesn t. I ask for an update on the Features, but untill that comes through, this has to do.Blocker

Slightly disappointed - I saw this film at the cinema and found it slightly disappointing. Seems if you are female then you ll love this movie for all the hunky men that are in it. However, I do admit to being a bit of a movie critic and the first let down was how much blue/green screen was used in this movie. Why they needed to pretty much do the whole movie like this I do not know?Secondly, for all the fighting scenes are at first glance awesome, they do lack a lot of detail. Seems that movies these days to sneak in a 15 certificate, they speed and blur the action scenes which I find ruins it slightly.Apart from that it still is a good movie but not as good as it could have been.




300 [2007]