Very well done film, excellent action, good dialogue.

Rating: 9/10 (9 March 2007)

When I heard a movie was coming out about the Battle of Thermopylae, I figured it would try to be about as historically accurate as possible. This was accurate in some ways, but also delightfully exaggerated making the whole movie feel like a live action cartoon. The movie follows King Leonidas and his army of 300 fighting and defeating the massive armies. Where slow motion action can often be boring, the many scenes of slow motion action is this were extremely interesting as we got to see exactly how this army of 300 was prevailing. The film really didn't have any shortcomings, except sometime it got a little too strange for it's own good, but coming from Frank Miller you have to expect this. Another small thing that this movie had was amusing dialogue, which is odd, in a good way, for a serious war film. My eyes were glued to the screen from the moment it started, to the great ending. I highly recommend it!
My rating: *** 1/2 out of ****. 112 mins. Rated R for strong violence, sexuality and nudity.