300 has one-dimensional caricatures who talk like professional wrestlers plugging their next feud.
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300 (2007)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:18
Rotten:21
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: A simple-minded but visually exciting experience, full of blood, violence, and ready-made movie quotes.
Theatrical Release:Mar 9, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $210,592,590
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... [More]
Starring: Gerard Butler, Vincent Regan, Lena Headey, David Wenham
Director: Zack Snyder
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Reviews for 300
Top CriticA muscle-magazine fantasy crossed with a video game and an Army recruiting film.
03/26/07
Top Critic300 was as pathetically puerile as I had expected.
03/21/07
Top CriticThe kids just want to have fun. Many of them will. But what does that say about another Greek contribution -- Western civilization?
03/10/07
Top CriticIf 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.
03/09/07
Top CriticHistory is inconveniently complex. And so we get Frank Miller's version, in which everything is simplified to the point of porridge.
03/09/07
Top CriticKeeping in mind Slate's Mickey Kaus' Hitler Rule -- never compare anything to Hitler -- it isn't a stretch to imagine Adolf's boys at a 300 screening, heil-fiving each other throughout and then lining up to see it again.
03/09/07
Top CriticWatching 300, there's the arresting sense of eavesdropping on another time.
03/09/07
Top CriticIt's impossible not to be moved by its nearly nonstop visual assault.
03/09/07
Top CriticIt's most definitely a Spartan movie, yet it's really all about wretched excess.
03/09/07
Top CriticDoes the film stay faithful to the Miller and Varley's vision? Indeed it does -- to a kunch!
03/09/07
Top CriticFor once, the Larry King quote machines who supply the advance blurbs to the studio for their marketing campaigns will be correct.
03/09/07
Top CriticSnyder gives his movie the encompassing look and feel of a graphic novel. Perhaps because he shot the actors in front of digitally concocted backgrounds, Snyder is able to sustain an otherworldly quality that perfectly suits the movie's lurid material.
03/09/07
Top Critic[Gerard Butler's character] charisma is elusive. He vigorously enunciates like a summer stock player doing Shakespeare. But the writing's overblown. And locating the requisite sorrow in this tale of heroism is an afterthought for Snyder and co.
03/09/07
Top CriticIt is excessively, cheerfully violent -- and it is gorgeous to behold. It looks like the world's most sophisticated and expensive video game, and I mean that in a good way.
03/09/07
Top Critic300, even with its impressive vistas of computer-generated soldiers, is just a throwaway epic.
03/08/07
Top Critic300 is about as subtle as a spear through the head. But it's also shamelessly entertaining, and not a bad way to make time move a little faster.
03/08/07
Top Critic300 is about as violent as Apocalypto and twice as stupid.
03/08/07
Top CriticIt also pits millions of fans of brainless violence against a gallant band, or so I choose to think of us, who still expect movies to contain detectable traces of humanity.
03/08/07
Top Critic300 is one breathtaking digi-tableau after another. But the dialogue is a joke, the performances have more to do with bodybuilding than character, and the lesson that the film imparts isn't anything to do with courage and military skill.
03/08/07
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