A Monumental Achievement in Film

Rating: 10/10 (10 April 2007)

This movie is one of those rare spectacles that has something so original, so fresh, and so bold, that I can only describe it as perfect. It had been so hyped up by everyone that I couldn't help but walk into the theater with the highest of expectations. Those expectations were obliterated. Visually it is stunning. When it ended I was the last one in my seat because I couldn't use my legs. It was an amazing thing to behold. But what makes this movie so great is that once you are able to get past the amazing visual effects, you realize that there is also beautifully written and wonderfully acted movie underneath. So moving was the passion for freedom of the Spartans that I was brought to feel the same passion for my own freedom. The lines were brilliantly delivered and Gerard Butler was perfect in his role, as were all the others of a phenomenal cast. When all is said and done, 300 takes the bar for it's genre of film and sets it to a hight that no other has reached.