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300 (2007)

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Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 223
Fresh: 132 | Rotten: 91

A simple-minded but visually exciting experience, full of blood, violence, and ready-made movie quotes.

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 23

A simple-minded but visually exciting experience, full of blood, violence, and ready-made movie quotes.

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Average Rating: 4.1/5
User Ratings: 1,307,172

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Movie Info

Sin City author Frank Miller's sweeping take on the historic Battle of Thermopylae comes to the screen courtesy of Dawn of the Dead director Zack Snyder. Gerard Butler stars as Spartan King Leonidas and Lena Headey plays Queen Gorgo. The massive army of the Persian Empire is sweeping across the globe, crushing every force that dares stand in its path. When a Persian envoy arrives in Sparta offering King Leonidas power over all of Greece if he will only bow to the will of the all powerful Xerxes

R, 1 hr. 56 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure

Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad, Michael B. Gordon

Jul 31, 2007

$210.6M

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Critic Reviews for 300

All Critics (224) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (142) | Rotten (96) | DVD (44)

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

August 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comments (19)
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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A muscle-magazine fantasy crossed with a video game and an Army recruiting film.

March 26, 2007 Full Review Source: New Yorker | Comment
David Denby
New Yorker
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300 was as pathetically puerile as I had expected.

March 21, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comments (31)
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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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 Source: CNN.com | Comment
Tom Charity
CNN.com
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If the movie's neocon message is as thin as a politician's excuse, that's to be expected. But what's surprising here is that the sights are just as meagre.

March 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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History is inconveniently complex. And so we get Frank Miller's version, in which everything is simplified to the point of porridge.

March 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | Comments (32)
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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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 Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
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 Source: Future Movies UK | Comment (1)
Coco Forsythe
Future Movies UK Source: 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 Source: Digital Spy | Comment (1)
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 Source: Sight and Sound | Comment
Andrew Osmond
Sight and Sound

Awesome!

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Film School Rejects | Comment
Neil Miller
Film School Rejects

Visually thrilling and viscerally satisfying.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | Comment
Scott Huver
Hollywood.com

Asscrack-ugly

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comments (14)
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 Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
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 Source: SFX Magazine | Comment (1)
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 Source: Boston Phoenix | Comment
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 Source: Fayetteville Free Weekly | 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 Source: ESplatter | Comment
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 Source: Kung Fu Cinema | Comments (3)
Mark Pollard
Kung Fu Cinema Source: Kung Fu Cinema

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.

March 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Washington City Paper | Comments (12)
Tricia Olszewski
Washington City Paper
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pretty silly - world's longest video game cut scene

March 25, 2007
brooklynspo
Bob Stinson

Super Reviewer

Imagine a high school football pep rally with everyone shirtless, jocks and the cheerleaders, all of them yelling "HOO-YAHHH!!!", filmed in close up and glorious slo-mo, and you've just about got this film completely pegged. Come to think of it, it actually sounds pretty good put that way, huh? At least I didn't

July 11, 2007
moonrivers
moon rivers

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300 Quotes

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    1. Gorgo: Spartan!
    2. King Leonidas: Yes my lady!
    3. Gorgo: Come back with your shield, or on it.
    4. King Leonidas: Yes my lady.
    – Submitted by Fisch K (16 days ago)
    1. King Leonidas: Lets give them something to drink!
    – Submitted by Tim K (36 days ago)
    1. King Leonidas: Give them nothing! But take from them everything!
    – Submitted by Javier Q (42 days ago)
    1. King Leonidas: This is Sparta!
    – Submitted by Matthew E (2 months ago)
    1. Captain: They say we Spartans descended from Hercules himself...Bold Leonidas gave testament to our bloodline...his roar was long and loud.
    – Submitted by Kent H (2 months ago)

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