It's What You'd Expect in an Epic Movie and More

Rating: 9/10 (19 May 2009)

From the call of the battle horns to the thousands of soldiers armed with weapons backed up by a heavy but effective soundtrack in the background to the scintillating special effects, "300" may look like another long-winded endless sagas of barbaric battles, endless bodies piling up and lots of red oozy blood for visual splendor. From observing the trailer those scenes that remained attached in your memory will manipulate you into driving out to see the movie or renting the DVD, but the best part is that the trailer is just glance of things to come.
Unlike other movies that only feature the good scenes or edit out scenes and scary moments leaving you bored to death with too much talk and not enough action, "300" gives you more than what you've bargained for. The battle scenes are complimented with an equally compelling plot with some great acting by the cast. It goes beyond any mindless blood-laden movies from the past and present. Sure there's blood, but it exceeds many obstacles many Hollywood films fail to achieve.
For those historical gurus who have complained that the movie sparked no significant accuracy,should just keep their noses in the books instead of dissecting every little inaccuracy there is. And besides how much accuracy is there in history books? After all we're not immortal so facts may have changed overtime. Not to put anyone down, but if you want accuracy, I watched a documentary on the Discovery Civilization channel that reveals actual scriptures that indicate Gods, Oracles and millions of people crossing the seas to take part in the battles. To me this movie goes way beyond a costume drama, even some of their sayings in Spartan times were dictated the way the could have spoken at that time.
The visual effects is pure eye-candy and the background music is quite creepy and compliments itself through every scene featured. What more can you want? If this movie doesn't satisfy the average viewer than what does? This one movie you should enjoy and leave your historical analysis in the classrooms.