In this handsome pantomime, the performances are not what we are watching.
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04/14/07
300 (2007)
60 %
Reviews Counted: 211 Fresh: 127 Rotten:84 Average Rating: 6.1/10
Consensus:
A simple-minded but visually exciting experience, full of blood, violence, and ready-made movie quotes.
Rated: 15
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Theatrical Release: 23-03-2007
Synopsis: Based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, 300 takes over the screen like an invading horde. With all the gushing blood of a horror movie and the scope of a classic epic, the second film from Zack Snyder (who helmed the 2004 remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD) is an impressive visual... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Gerard Butler, Vincent Regan, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Michael Fassbender
Director: Zack Snyder
Screenwriter: Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad, Michael B. Gordon
Producer: Mark Canton, Bernie Goldmann, Jeffrey Silver, Gianni Nunnari
Composer: Tyler Bates
Screenwriter: Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad, Michael B. Gordon
Producer: Mark Canton, Bernie Goldmann, Jeffrey Silver, Gianni Nunnari
Composer: Tyler Bates
Reviews
Top Critic
The Spartan soldiers, carrying shields like dustbin lids and spears like park railings, have shiny rippling bodies, wear black leather Speedos and short red cloaks, and seem to be responding to an invitation to a fancy-dress party at a gay New York club.
03/31/07
The hyper-real blue screen and the moral complexity of root veg remains faithful to Miller. But you can't help feeling this could have had more to say about war than "come join the party!".
03/30/07
This is a gorgeously designed, impressively directed and action-packed swords-and-sandals flick, even if the fascist overtones and the shouting gets a bit much after a while.
03/24/07
Apart from anything else, the idea of America having the Spartans' underdog status is not plausible.
03/24/07
Top Critic
Visually stunning, thoroughly belligerent and as shallow as a pygmy’s paddling pool, this is a whole heap of style tinged with just a smidgen of substance.
03/23/07
Top Critic
It might have been one of the great all-time mad, bad movies but for one thing – it’s just sooo boring.
03/17/07
Top Critic
Taken on it's own terms - as Greek myth meets Looney Tunes - it's kind of a masterpiece.
03/17/07
Top Critic
The result is a delirious, turbo-charged roar of a movie that plays like Spartacus on bizarre drugs.
03/08/07
Zack Snyder invests loads of visual style into this adaptation of Frank Miller's now-classic graphic novel ... but there's not much going on underneath the gorgeous surface.
03/07/07
Zack Snyder's film version of the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley may look like the greatest music video ever made; whether or not it is a decent feature film is another question altogether.
07/09/08
This is death and war as ancient poets might have imagined it, glorious and provocative ... 300 is a powerhouse actioner.
06/21/08
All this bellowing and testosterone gets old fast -- especially since there's not much of a plot outside of the combat scenes, and the not-much-of-a-plot scenes are laden with dialogue worthy of Anakin and Padmé.
03/04/08
The look and feel of this historic battle is perfect for the virtual backgrounds and obscene violence. Again, trust me on the violence.
03/03/08
300 is an orgy of gore, a blood-letting on a titanic scale, a ballet of butchery in which half-naked men and the torrents of blood they elicit move in perfect, slow-motion choreography to a thunderous soundtrack. And I loved every minute of it.
02/28/08
I still wish David Wenham weren't the narrator, but everything else about the movie is a brutal kind of hypnotic that keeps me coming back.
01/03/08
A typical stupid action movie, with an extra dollop of stupid on the side.
09/27/07
It would now seem that the notebook drawings of troubled teenage boys have been elevated to the status of "high art". God save us all.
09/10/07
While far from sophisticated in its 'I have filled my heart with hate' messaging, it resonates with the 'us versus them' worldview that's wildly popular in some circles.
08/05/07
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