Review – 300

Though I expect this is intended to be a stand-alone production, I’d like to see Hollywood turn this into a franchise. The next episode could be 300 Part 2: Themistocles, the tale of how the “boy lovers” of Athens soundly defeated the dreaded Persian onslaught at Salamis. And if that one works out, they could make 300 Part 3: The Peloponnesian War. Fast forward 60 years or so and let audiences feast on the sight of the “noble” Spartans accepting financial assistance from the Persians in a 20-year struggle with Athens. Of course we won’t be able to get Frank Miller to work on any of that. Such plot lines lack the fascist simplicity of the story of Thermopylae. Plot aside, however, the visuals are genuinely impressive. The look and feel is heavily stylized without being as distractingly comic-bookish as Sin City. Now if such imagery could just be used to tell a more worthwhile tale. Mildly amusing