Excellent Drama of Real History

Rating: 9/10 (11 March 2007)

I often find myself comparing historical movies to real history. One way of doing that is to both see the movie and then also read up on the reality and / or see comments from the History Channel. In most cases in the past I have been disappointed. Real history is often more interesting and at times even more fun than the movie regarding it.
But in the movie 300, I have to give full credit to Frank Miller's handling of the movie. It kept close to history and in fact embraces many of the realities of history. However, we of course must give the movie industry some poetic license. Frank Miller then adds a dramatization and human interest stories on top of it. In my opinion this is the movie industry at its best - stick to the basic truth, but add some drama and entertainment to the story line. Excellent movie, and close enough to recorded history to receive a very good grade there also.
I should warn some without giving away the plot here that the movie is a war movie. There is much bloodshed here. Of course there also was much in history. The movie was also believable. The actors playing world conquerors and military leaders actually looked the part. Very well done in my opinion.