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Like
Sin City before it,
300 brings Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's graphic novel vividly
to life. Gerard Butler (
Beowulf and Grendel,
The Phantom of the Opera) radiates pure power and charisma as
Leonidas, the Grecian king who leads 300 of his fellow Spartans
(including David Wenham of
The Lord of the Rings, Michael Fassbender, and Andrew Pleavin)
into a battle against the overwhelming force of Persian invaders.
Their only hope is to neutralise the numerical advantage by
confronting the Persians, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro),
at the narrow strait of Thermopylae. More engaging than
Troy, the somewhat similar epic of ancient Greece,
300 is also comparable to
Sin City in that the actors were shot on green screen, then added
to digitally created backgrounds. The effort pays off in a
strikingly stylised look and huge, sweeping battle scenes.
However, it's not as to-the-letter faithful to Miller's source
material as
Sin City was. The plot is the same, and many of the book's images
are represented just about perfectly. But some extra material has
been added, including new villains (who would be considered
"bosses" if this were a video game, and it often feels like one)
and a political subplot involving new characters and a
significantly expanded role for the Queen of Sparta (Lena
Headey). While this subplot by director Zack Snyder (
Dawn of the Dead) and his fellow co-writers does break up the
violence, most fans would probably dismiss it as filler if it
didn't involve the sexy Headey. Other viewers, of co! urse, will
be turned off by the waves of spurting blood, flying body parts,
and surging testosterone. (The six-pack abs are also relentless,
and the movie has more and less nudity--more female, less
male--than the graphic novel.) Still, as a representation of
Miller's work and as an ancient-themed action flick with a modern
edge,
300 delivers.
--David Horiuchi
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