She knows he is going off to his doom, but she wants the Spartans to send reinforcements, so she spends most of the movie trying to meet with the council while also dealing with the sleazy traitor Theron (Dominic West). The visuals are still mesmerizing, and the music score is epic with huge choirs and percussion during the many battle scenes.ģ00 is really more style than substance but there is still heart to the story especially the relationship between Leonidas and his wife Gorgo (Lena Headey). Most of the movie was filmed in a warehouse if I’m not mistaken and although you can tell it’s greenscreen it still pulls you into this fantasy world and is fast paced with plentiful scenes of bloodshed and action. This is one of the shoutiest movies you’ll ever see with Gerard Butler at his grizzled best spewing classic lines like “THIS IS SPARTA!” amongst many others. Zack Snyder is one of the most polarizing directors working today but 300 for me is his finest hour and it bothers me that I will never be as manly as Leonidas or frankly any of the 300 Spartans in fact, I think I have more in common with the hunchback Ephialtes instead.Īnyway, we all know the story of 300 Spartan men facing off against the God King Xerxes endless armies and it’s a tale of standing up for what’s right and as writer Frank Miller states in one of the interviews on this disc not all heroes get a medal at the end. Review: It had been a while since I last watched 300 but I saw the Complete Experience Blu-ray book for $6.99 the other day and decided to pick it up and revisit it. Based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) and Lynn Varley. Though certain death awaits the Spartans, their sacrifice inspires all of Greece to unite against their common enemy. At the Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas (Gerard Butler), king of the Greek city state of Sparta, leads his badly outnumbered warriors against the massive Persian army.

a state of war exists between Persia, led by King Xerxes, and Greece.

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