Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 7321902162850
Format: Dolby, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: October 01, 2007
Running Time: 111 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 23, 2007

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Like Sin City before it, 300 brings Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's graphic novel vividly to life. Gerard Butler (Beowulf and Grendel, The Phantom of the Opera) radiates pure power and charisma as Leonidas, the Grecian king who leads 300 of his fellow Spartans (including David Wenham of The Lord of the Rings, Michael Fassbender, and Andrew Pleavin) into a battle against the overwhelming force of Persian invaders. Their only hope is to neutralise the numerical advantage by confronting the Persians, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), at the narrow strait of Thermopylae.

More engaging than Troy, the tepid and somewhat similar epic of ancient Greece, 300 is also comparable to Sin City in that the actors were shot on green screen, then added to digitally created backgrounds. The effort pays off in a strikingly stylised look and huge, sweeping battle scenes. However, it's not as to-the-letter faithful to Miller's source material as Sin City was. The plot is the same, and many of the book's images are represented just about perfectly. But some extra material has been added, including new villains (who would be considered "bosses" if this were a video game, and it often feels like one) and a political subplot involving new characters and a significantly expanded role for the Queen of Sparta (Lena Headey). While this subplot by director Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead) and his fellow co-writers does break up the violence, most fans would probably dismiss it as filler if it didn't involve the sexy Headey. Other viewers, of course, will be turned off by the waves of spurting blood, flying body parts, and surging testosterone. (The six-pack abs are also relentless, and the movie has more and less nudity--more female, less male--than the graphic novel.) Still, as a representation of Miller's work and as an ancient-themed action flick with a modern edge, 300 delivers. --David Horiuchi




Rating: - See the movie, read the book
Reading the reviews, this film have two type of opinions: very, very bad, very very good.
In my opionion is a very, very, very good film. If you search a historical rappresentation you make a mistake.
Movie and book are a perfect "personal" interpretation of Leonida's men sacrifice. Vivid colours (more red blood than others) dialogues reducted to some essential phrases, powerfull graphic presentation. Read the book and see the movie, its perfect trasposition, with a good cast and a ... Read More

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Rating: - Rent it, dont buy it.
Visually its pretty interesting. A lot of the ideas are good but are let down by the rubbish CGI BIG TIME.

Historically its patchy at best (but aren't all films of this ilk. Its worth a watch if your interested in this kind of thing but to be honest the original film was better and if you have seen that, you can appreciate the magnitude of the statement.

By far the best rendition of the battle of thermopylae can be found in Herodotus' Histories. here the story is presented ... Read More

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Rating: - Unsubtle but Bland
300 is a strange film. It's a film which is based on a comic - I know aficionados like to call them 'graphic novels', but that's what they are I'm afraid - of the same name by Frank Miller. It is a story about the Spartan 'backs to the wall' defence at Thermopylae in 480 BC, which put up a courageous but ultimately failed resistance against the Persian king Xerxes I; the force included (but not, as the film implies, exclusively) 300 Spartans, hence the title. So, a film adaptation from a comic, based on ... Read More

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Rating: - GREAT HISTORICAL LY CORRECT FILM
300 is a really well done and historically correct film - although the Persians might not like the fact that their entire army of thousands was slain by only 300 Spartans. It therefore was banned in Iran.
300 features impressive battle scenes and is visually brilliant. It also is quite violent but nowhere near its bad reputation. Battles are in the spotlight here, so don't be expecting too much of anything else.

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Rating: - SPECTACULAR and EMOTIONAL
What can be said that hasnt? This is a beautiful movie but I only hope everyone saw it in theatres, the bigger the screen the better for this movie.

The commentary is worth a listen but be warned they liked the movie on the big Imax screen too, and mention this a lot through out the movie how you can see more if its an Imax print. This made me feel a little cheated and I dont think they should have gone on about it so explicitly but that aside this is going to be a beautiful rich movie with ... Read More

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