Excellent movie

Rating: 1/10 (13 March 2007)

Definitely worth the money for a change. There are lots of great action scenes and amazing costumes and design work at every level. There is even some acting. Whether this movie is historically accurate or not is irrelevant. In brief, 300 muscular six-packed oiled-up Spartans whose society was based around war meet the evil hordes from Lord of the Rings aka the Persians. The battle that lasted 3 days took place in Thermopylae in Greece. There was a bottle-neck at which the Spartans made their stand and the 600K Persians tried to force their way through. What ensued was one of the greatest battles in human history that basically saved democracy.
This movie did come across a tiny minuscule little bit like an advert for white supremacy but I am sure that was not the intention. Case in point I was very proud to see Peter Mensah as a Persian. He was as always magnificent. The best thing about this movie was Kelly Craig who is the incredibly sexy Oracle girl. Ms. Craig seems to be an Internet ghost in that there are virtually no photos of her anywhere. Her agent should be taken out at dawn and shot with a disposable camera.
As a Persian I was of course not surprised that we were portrayed as evil hordes. I would have liked to have seen some Persians eating roasted babies (like we do) but well you can't have everything. Its not any kind of propaganda just historical fact really. After all my name is Evil. Axis of Evil. Oh yes and I drive a Ford Insurgent.