300 (2007)

Madness?! This is my movie review! I had to do it. A review for a movie so filled with awesomely cheesey lines needs to use cheesey lines itself. That is not to say the scripting in 300 is bad. It's rather fitting for what the movie is. And what it is is a comic book adaptation.

The style of the movie may be an acquired taste. 90% of the film was made on blue/green screen and so the visuals are not what one would call realistic. But to me, they are beautiful since I grew up a comic book nerd and can appreciate such a unique presentation. Furthermore, like a comic book (similar to Sin City, another Frank Miller comic) there is a lot of voice over narration. But for some reason I didn't think it as overbearing as the voice overs in Sin City. It helped the story along nicely.

This movie isn't gonna win any oscars, but it's sure to be entertaining if you like graphic action movies. There are some wicked fight scenes which used slow motion creatively, if not a bit too much though. Overall thouogh, I thought it was a pleasing movie. At times it got a little too Gladiator/Troy like, but that couldn't be helped.

I rate this "two time checks". Though those occurred during the story building scenes. If you forgot what time checks means, at least know the less time checks the better. Because I only check the time (look at my watch) when I get bored. However the fight scenes and one-liners certainly made up for the time checks. And hell, anytime you walk out of an action movie with the overwhelming feeling that you can kick anyone's ass is always a good indicator that the movie did it's job.