300 (2007)

All Critics (225) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (144) | Rotten (96) | DVD (44)

300 has one-dimensional caricatures who talk like professional wrestlers plugging their next feud.

August 8, 2008 Full Review | Comments (26)

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

A muscle-magazine fantasy crossed with a video game and an Army recruiting film.

March 26, 2007 Full Review | Comments (2)

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

300 was as pathetically puerile as I had expected.

March 21, 2007 Full Review | Comments (37)

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

It might have been one of the great all-time mad, bad movies but for one thing - it's just sooo boring.

March 17, 2007 Full Review

Trevor Johnston

Time Out

Top Critic

As to this pumped-up spectacle's other aims, it's anybody's guess: selling gladiatorial chest-beating as beefcake erotica? Combining a movie and its own video-game spin-off into one package? Being both a dessert topping and a floor wax?

March 10, 2007 Full Review

David Fear

Time Out New York

Top Critic

The kids just want to have fun. Many of them will. But what does that say about another Greek contribution -- Western civilization?

March 10, 2007 Full Review | Comments (2)

Tom Charity

CNN.com

Top Critic

So manly it makes Troy look like a Mary-Kate and Ashley adventure.

November 3, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

Wallowing in the same adolescent nihilism as his Sin City, this adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel suffers from a similar lack of momentum.

July 9, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kenigsberg

Time Out Chicago

even without all the special features, 300 is the kind of movie you want to put in the Blu-ray player, turn down the lights, turn up the volume and experience it

September 21, 2010 Full Review | Comments (3)

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

As the first blockbuster of the year, 300 sets the bar high enough, and is enjoyably silly.

July 6, 2010 Full Review | Comments (3)

Coco Forsythe

Future Movies UK

Despite a cracking central premise and outstanding visuals, 300 ultimately leaves you feeling more gutted than some of the disemboweled soldiers on display throughout the movie.

July 6, 2010 Full Review | Comments (4)

Ben Rawson-Jones

Digital Spy

If 300 represents an evolution in 'virtual' cinema, then at the same time it tells a story that transports us back to the violent roots of western civilisation.

July 6, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Andrew Osmond

Sight and Sound

Awesome!

July 6, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Neil Miller

Film School Rejects

Visually thrilling and viscerally satisfying.

July 6, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Scott Huver

Hollywood.com

Asscrack-ugly

August 27, 2009 Full Review | Comments (19)

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

...it features some of the most-beautiful packaging for any disc of any kind to date. (Blu-ray Book Edition)

July 7, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

This is cinema as a fireside storyteller, retelling heroic tales handed down through the generations.

May 12, 2009 Full Review | Comments (3)

Dave Golder

SFX Magazine

[Snyder] twists the brawn and battle into a cartoonish FX extravaganza with severed body parts and globules of blood flying across the screen.

April 23, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

Tom Meek

Boston Phoenix

300 is a fun-fest of blood, mayhem, and absurdity. At its best, it is entertaining; when it's not at its best, it's pretty dumb. It's pretty dumb much of the time.

February 2, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

Tony Macklin

Fayetteville Free Weekly

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.

July 9, 2008 Full Review

Steve Biodrowski

ESplatter

This is death and war as ancient poets might have imagined it, glorious and provocative ... 300 is a powerhouse actioner.

June 21, 2008 Full Review | Comments (3)

Mark Pollard

Kung Fu Cinema

• 1. Persian: A thousand nations of the Persian empire descend upon you. Our arrows will blot out the sun.
  2. Stelios: Then we will fight in the shade.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (5 months ago)
• 1. King Leonidas: Tonight, we dine in Hell.
  – Submitted by Jimmy G (7 months ago)
• 1. Messenger: This is madness!
  2. King Leonidas: Madness? This is Sparta!
  – Submitted by Randon L (8 months ago)
• 1. Persian: Our arrows will blot out the sun.
  2. Stelios: Then we will fight in the shade.
  – Submitted by William C (8 months ago)
• 1. King Leonidas: The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, even a god-king can bleed.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (8 months ago)
• 1. King Leonidas: You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city steps. You insult my queen. You threaten my people with slavery and death! Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same!
  2. Messenger: This is blasphemy! This is madness!
  3. King Leonidas: Madness...?
  4. Messenger: This is Sparta!
  – Submitted by Hari S (9 months ago)