KIM NOVACK...I couldn't tell you whether she is a good actress or a bad one, because I've always fond her so stunningly beautiful and sexy and sexual, I just didn't care. I have fond memories of her in THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY.
300...I liked it! Given the TV promos, I had great fears that this was going to be another of those concussive, assaulting movie where you get bombarded with non-stop action and a nauseating moving camera that's so busy it never lets the eye rest on anything longer than two seconds and you can't delineate any of the details of the action.
But, on the contrary, the movie is clear and clean and the action filmed in such a way that you can figure out who's who even in the battle scenes. Even the violence, which is occasionally graphic (heads being lopped off and the like) is so stylized and almost operatic that it's not off-putting and almost antiseptic. It really does emulate the looks and style of its source...that of a graphic novel. Quite well done and certainly better than the old Richard Egan 300 SPARTANS.