Blood, Guts, Gore and Goodness

Rating: 8/10 (27 December 2007)

300 is in short, an epic. It may be a Graphic Novel/Comic Book turned into an epic, but it's a modern day epic for sure. While some of the critics find it hard to enjoy the film as its action movie plot and criticise the "lack" of acting, plot and superb dialogue. It is still nevertheless an epic.
Many viewers find it hard to see through all the muscle to see the acting, but it's all there.
The Plot is relatively simple and while the film isn't a high class film, it suits it's story through brilliance in simplicity. Just three hundred of the worlds best soldiers go to defend their democratic-country against one of the largest armies ever seen and do a brilliant job at it. So it's no surprise that the film is filled to the brim with blood, with slow motion "speed ramped" flying bodies, heads, legs, arms and other flying limb's goodness for a good portion of the film. Luckily this doesn't get too repetitive and the film ends before the audience puts up peace-banners and screams "stop the fighting!".
However, obviously some people think otherwise and say it's a terrible film that has too much fighting in it and is terrible, with bad acting, a simple plot, and is made for a MTV-crowd audience. I wonder what these people thought that the film would be like when it was made about the battle of Thermopylae and 300 Spartans in war. But for the story the film has the perfect amount of action.
As 300 is made from the graphic novel "300" by frank miller, it's no surprise there's a fantastic amount of detail and the shots are all carefully placed to mimic the graphic novel. The contrast is upped so the film has a golden dusted look that makes the whole film shine and the near royal red spartan cloak stand out fabulously on film.
Unfortunately, that's all thats left in interest of the film, the dialogue and epic speeches are great too, but only the first time you hear them with a great sound system.
But that doesn't mean the film isn't fantastically entertaining, amusing and a visual work of art.
I give it 8 out of ten, it's not Gladiator, but it's fabulously entertaining for what it is.