Very Entertaining Film!

Rating: 9/10 (17 May 2009)

My brother and I absolutely loved the 1962 film "300 Spartans" based on the amazing 'Battle of Thermopylae' fought in 480 B.C. with the Greek City States of the time fighting the entire Persian Empire led by King Xerxes. The astounding stand of the 300 Spartans who held the Persians at bay at the Thermopylae Pass while the rest of Greece observed a holy festival. The original was a low-budget film with inferior special effects as its only fault. My brother and I always hoped for a remake, although we still revered the original. When I learned of the news of the 2006 production 4 years earlier, we waited with great anticipation. "300" wasn't quite what we'd hoped for but it is a very entertaining "comic book" version with a visually stunning style. The producers filmed the story as myth rather than reality, but it works well!