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Title: X300
Review: This is 300 multiplied 300 times. I'm a Tarsem fan and expected great visuals, weak story. He had wanted to make the 300 film but Zach Snyder beat him to it. They are apparently friends, so no big whoop: Tarsem made The Fall instead, an incredible film. This time he works with a straightforward narrative: Theseus wants to kill Hyperion. Great set pieces move things along briskly, culminating in an epic battle at Mt Tartarus. Not between Theseus and Hyperion, though that is well done too. The battle between Olympians (the eponymous immortals) and Titans has to be seen. The things Zeus can do with a chain got me up off my theater seat cheering like I was at the super bowl -and I hate football. Ordinarily I don't much like sweaty gladiator cheesecake pummeling this genre offers in most cases. This is something on a higher order, worth checking out on the biggest screen turned up to eleven... times three hundred!
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