300... a DELIGHT To The EYE

Rating: 9/10 (28 April 2007)

I mean WHAT a film. The cinematography for one is stone dead perfect. The lighting effects and general direction is bang on and makes the film a non-stop adrenaline filled film.
Another thing I liked is the film never tried to make any one Spartan look like a hero. Yes we had King Leionidas but for every shot of him throwing a spear through the eyes of Persian, we saw a parallel shot of say Captain or Dilios cutting a mans face down the centre to which a pool of blood erupted. In life the Spartans were always about the man by your side and this film pulled that point across to absolute perfection.
I also liked the banter between Stelios and Captains son. It lightened the mood of the movie and reminded me of the banter between Gimli and Legolas in LotR. Whats more their friendly banter made the death of Captains Son for myself that little harder to watch.
The action and fights were awesome, with blood, decapitations, merciless warriors truly lighting the screen up. I loved how the directors made Xerxes so much taller, as if to make us think Xerxes was that little bit mightier which made the eventual downfall of so many Persians all the more sweeter to watch.
The constant narration by Dilios was again perfect, he came in and spoke when needed and the writing was sublime.
I want to give it a 10 but that 0.0000000001 is because I wanted the movie to go on for hour's on end. They could have made this movie 5, 10, 24 hours long and not one person would want to leave that cinema before the movie finished.
and whats with the fat dude with two blades for hands. Xerxes must have been like 'i don't want to use axes for executions, I know lets cut this fat dudes arms off *cuts arms off* right now strap on some axes, *axes strapped on* see perfect, you wanna drink mate, oh right forgot you have no hands anymore'