300
2007
**½
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, Vincent Regan, Rodrigo Santoro, Tom Wisdom, Johnny Lewis, Riley Keough
A fictionalised account of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, when 300 Spartan warriors (clad in sandals, capes and leather briefs) defended Greece against the Persian army, which numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Like Sin City, this frame-for-frame adaptation of Frank Miller's comic book was shot entirely against green screen. The sets, locations, special effects, and abs were all created on the computer. Zack Snyder's heavily stylised epic turns everything to 11; it seems like every action scene is in slow motion and each line of dialogue is shouted. The film doesn't have a dull moment, but it is remarkably silly and infantile.
