Great adaptation!

Rating: 8/10 (4 April 2007)

This movie should be judged, in my opinion, for how well it's adapted from comic to big screen and not for what It may lack in story, theme or deep philosophical questions. Its no Braveheart or Gladiator, it's 300! and it's, like the comic, there to tell a "true", gritty, down and dirty and bloody story, about insane men killing each other in the name of freedom and power...thats it. Frank Millers comic does not try to be anything else but that and so the movie, apart from a few added political scenes, don't either. For what It is, 300 is extremely well made, even cool at times. Visually Ít's stunning and memorable, like nothing I've ever seen before. The comic book too is very "in your face" with large drawings of battle-scenes and rugged countrysides painted with an imaginative color-palette. In my opinion, 300 is perfectly adapted from comic to screen, It's an action-packed, well made and well acted, beautifully shot movie that doesn't pretend to be more than what It seeks to adapt. This Is one of those movies you can always watch and enjoy again and again..a bit like Troy really, damn entertaining!