Give them nothing! But take from them... everything!
-- Spartan King Leonidas

Don’t tell the critics, but “300″ is a new kind of action movie, a clever synthesis of the stylized epic storytelling practiced by Peter Jackson in “Lord of the Rings” and the stop ‘n’ start fast-motion cutting of the Wachowski brothers’ “Matrix” series. It’s a gamer’s view of the world that film critics don’t relate to because they seem to have forgotten the kick they got from reading comics as kids.
-- Patrick Goldstein