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Starring:
Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham, Vincent Regan, Andrew Tiernan, Rodrigo Santoro, Stephen McHattie, Andrew Pleavin, Tom Wisdom, Michael Fassbender, Tom Wisdom, Greg Kramer, Alex Ivanovici, Kelly Craig, Giovani Cimmino
Directed By:
Zack Snyder
Written By:
Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad
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300 (2007)
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Movie Review by Skye 
June 19th, 2008
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"Madness? This is Sparta!" This line exclaimed by the Spartan King Leonidas sets the aggressively hungry tone for the entire story of the movie 300.
Adapted from the graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller about the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., it is packed with a power house of blood, brawn and battles. The movie does not even remotely sidestep around what it is: a total all out war movie. This is all about the want, need and fruition of a battle that was warned against by the Spartan elders, but that King Leonidas happily marches into against the powerful Persians.
The coolness factor of this film is of course the great cinematography techniques incorporated in the other adapted Miller novel Sin City. Sharp imagery and vibrant coloring is stretched across the celluloid canvas like a great painting coming to life. At times the film leans on these techniques a little too much, not paying attention to the story itself; however, for what the story is it doesn't lend itself to anything but the fact that it is a gigantic elongated battle scene. If you enjoy that, you will enjoy this movie.
This is not to say that this film is not good, quite the contrary, it is very good. It just falls into the trap of all great special effects films of focusing more on the effects than the story. In general though, this is a great way to retell this historical battle and 300 will easily take its place in the history of the coolest movies of all time.
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