A STAB AT HISTORY: `300' slavishly faithful to the graphic-novel version of Thermopylae.(Movie review)(Video recording review)

From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) | Date: March 9, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Michael Phillips

Mar. 9--'300' **1/2 If a film manages to tell an old story in an appreciably new visual way, that's not nothing. By that measure "300" succeeds. It's a fairly entertaining bloodbath designed to put audiences ringside in the cage match of the 5th Century B.C., as the Spartans square off against the Persians. It's the few against the many, and the few are mighty fit. The movie should've been called "Ode to a Grecian Ab." Zack Snyder directs, f...

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