300 (2006)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 117m
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West
Synopsis:
King Leonidas of Sparta snubs the envoys of Persian king Xerxes who responds by sending an armada to attack Greece. The Spartans, for their part, send three hundred men in defiance of augury to stem the Persian advance at Thermopylae.
Review:
Frank Miller's graphic novel, partly inspired by the 1962 film, translates superbly to the screen. Some surrender to the conventions of the form are necessary (characterisation is strictly two-dimensional, for example), and it would be a shame if all action cinema became like this, but of itself it is at times astonishingly beautiful, the blue screen settings seamlessly incorporated into the action and the bloodthirstiness vividly depicted in vari-motion (a mite overdone, this).
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 117m
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West
Synopsis:
King Leonidas of Sparta snubs the envoys of Persian king Xerxes who responds by sending an armada to attack Greece. The Spartans, for their part, send three hundred men in defiance of augury to stem the Persian advance at Thermopylae.
Review:
Frank Miller's graphic novel, partly inspired by the 1962 film, translates superbly to the screen. Some surrender to the conventions of the form are necessary (characterisation is strictly two-dimensional, for example), and it would be a shame if all action cinema became like this, but of itself it is at times astonishingly beautiful, the blue screen settings seamlessly incorporated into the action and the bloodthirstiness vividly depicted in vari-motion (a mite overdone, this).
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 117m
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West
Synopsis:
King Leonidas of Sparta snubs the envoys of Persian king Xerxes who responds by sending an armada to attack Greece. The Spartans, for their part, send three hundred men in defiance of augury to stem the Persian advance at Thermopylae.
Review:
Frank Miller's graphic novel, partly inspired by the 1962 film, translates superbly to the screen. Some surrender to the conventions of the form are necessary (characterisation is strictly two-dimensional, for example), and it would be a shame if all action cinema became like this, but of itself it is at times astonishingly beautiful, the blue screen settings seamlessly incorporated into the action and the bloodthirstiness vividly depicted in vari-motion (a mite overdone, this).