The battle scenes must be seen to be believed. Lena Heady as his wife Queen Gorgo brings dramatic heft to her add-on role. Gerald Butler's Leonidas joyfully barks orders in a Scotch brogue. Here that though Miller may have fudged the details, he got the big story right: how a handful of Spartans, aided by some Thebans and Thespians (those boys could act) fought off a much larger Persian force for three days, allowing Greece to get its shit together for the coming storm. The noted military historian Victor David Hanson says The Godfather is a better movie than book. The best adaptations add meat and poetry to the bones of the source material. The movie version of Frank Miller's graphic novel 300 is better than the graphic novel.