300
This entry was posted on 3/9/2007 2:07 PM and is filed under Film Reviews.
Taking to heart the lesson learned from the suppressed domestic grosses of international hits
Troy and
Kingdom of Heaven — which is to say that American teen audiences like any big screen history they must
suffer through to be married to a more expressive and flamboyantly
stylistic mode of storytelling — Warner Bros.’
300 offers up
a
stirring tale of battlefield sacrifice that’s tailor-made for
MTV-generation glorification. It’s bloody, it has nudity and a wicked streak of darkly humorous fatalism that seems
suitable for these times;
it pops off the screen with the same sort of
in-your-face quality of Sin City, mixing fantastical visual affectation with skull-cracking action. Young males are going to eat this movie up.
I've talked about it before, but
for the full review, from FilmStew, click here.
