![]() ![]() ![]() Gerard Butler plays Sparta's King Leonidas, a descendant of Hercules who has been in battle-ready mode since he was a kid. Both boast bloodbaths, although "300" prefers slow-motion sprays to a seeping surge. Both are stylized and painterly, but where "Sin City" had a film-noir tone and lighting, "300" feels like a cross between animation, horror movie and post-apocalyptic futurism. There's a slight kinship visually between "300" and "Sin City," also from Miller's graphic-novel oeuvre. It looks gritty and gory, and the desaturated color palette foretells doom. However, this is not some antiseptic digital slideshow. The actors and their finely honed physiques are real, but almost everything around them was created in a computer. ![]() "300" is an epic crafted from muscles and pixels. The most rockin' movie about the Battle of Thermopylae ever, "300" breezes past Herodotus and takes most of its cues from Frank Miller's graphic novel "300." It's brutal, brazen and very nearly brilliant. ![]()
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