Great action, great theme, great morals

Rating: 10/10 (18 May 2008)

People looking for an "authentic historical motion picture" should look elsewhere. 300 is a fantasy movie about three things: Action, visuals, and morals.
The action scenes are amazing, the visuals are stunning, and the moral stand of the righteousness of defending one's home at any cost against totalitarian regimes is also appealing.
Amusingly enough, the movie's morals have brought forth an enormous amount of vitriol here on IMDb and from liberal reviewers such as Roger Ebert. This usually happens with blood-filled movies, though it's usually loud cries for censorship from the Christian right. This time, however, the vitriol is from the extremist left who somehow find Saw and Kill Bill more acceptable than people fighting to defend their home. Strange.
Anyway, it's a great movie.