Monday, March 19, 2007

Mini-Review: "300"

Review by Fat Jack
My Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5

Rated R

Rotten Tomatoes: 61% Fresh
Netflix: 4.4 stars out of 5
IMDb: 8.2 stars out of 10
Richard Roeper: 4 stars out of 4





What do I say about 300 that hasn’t already been stated? You know it is highly stylized and that it’s by comic book great Frank Miller. This is a man’s movie. It is about all things male: territory, protection, honor and bravado. It is bloody – bloody good, that is.

That isn’t to say that it doesn’t have its problems. It does. If you are a history junkie, then I hear tell that this is not very accurate. There were also a lot of persons with disabilities who were portrayed, as often happens with Hollywood films, as evil, corrupt, beastly, or treacherous. There were more, but most of it has already been talked about.

Spartan King Leonidas: We Spartans have descended from Hercules himself. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender. Taught that death in the battlefield is the greatest glory he could achieve in his life. Spartans – the finest soldiers the world has ever known.

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