Entertaining...First Great Popcorn Flick of 2007

Rating: 9/10 (9 March 2007)

I never expected that three genres of film: the classical and historical early civilization war movies like Gladiator, Troy, Braveheart and Alexander; could be mixed with the fantasy epic like The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the blue screen/green screen comic book styled genre like Sin City, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Dick Tracy would result to an highly entertaining film like 300. The movie is based on Frank Miller's ( creator of Sin City) graphic novel "300" which was inspired by another movie the 1962 classic "The 300 Spartans". It depicts the legendary tale of King Leonidas of Sparta and 300 of his men who gallantly fought against the mighty Persian Army climaxing in the Battle of Thermopylae thus changing the course of history. I myself, am not that familiar with ancient history war civilization, my knowledge of it comes from the Asterix series comic books, and movies like Gladiator, Alexander and Troy. Watching 300 not only made be entertained but also it aroused my curiosity in researching the history of Spartans. The comic book style of the film implies that the movie isn't to be taken seriously. Violence and carnage abounds but since the origin of 300 is from a graphic novel, it is not that gory. It actually blends well with the tone with the film. This is one war epic that you won't be caught sleeping to.