Loads of end to end action, but almost exclusively from the technicians...

Rating: 6/10 (14 March 2020)

I'll say from the outset that I didn't hate this, but that it certainly will not suit everyone. Gerard Butler leads the 300 Spartans of legend as "King Leonidas" tasked with thwarting the ambitions of Xerxes, Emperor of Persia who is bent on a total invasion of Greece. The story is the stuff of ancient Greek myth - and this very, very heavily computer generated film is quite a difficult one to enjoy - the colours/shades are dark and ambiguous; the battle scenes suitably gory but equally fake and the script needed someone with better than A-level English to work on it. That said, it does benefit from that darkness and edginess - the characterisations combine honour and brutality in quite a plausible, if at times an almost alien fashion. If you know the legend upon which this is based, you will appreciate that this is a pretty "loose" adaptation of events at Thermopylae and certainly way too long; but worth a go - just about.