300 Reviews
Las Vegas Weekly
So militaristic and single-minded that it's like a CGI-heavy blockbuster version of Triumph of the Will.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
While the standard complaint might be about the surfeit of blood spilled, the real problem isn't so much the gore that gets splattered around in 300 as its lack of effect - it's all antiseptic and pretty.
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| Original Score: 80/100
Top Critic300 has one-dimensional caricatures who talk like professional wrestlers plugging their next feud.
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| Original Score: 2/4
[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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The movie should've been called Ode to a Grecian Ab.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
It 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.
Cinematical
Whatever your reason for going into 300, I can't imagine leaving it very excited by what you get. I can imagine being excited by the prospect of leaving -- for me, the end credits of 300 rolled up on the screen with the comforting shock of a parole notice
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| Original Score: 0/4
Boston Phoenix
[Snyder] twists the brawn and battle into a cartoonish FX extravaganza with severed body parts and globules of blood flying across the screen.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Fayetteville Free Weekly
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.
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| Original Score: 2.0/5
Digital Spy
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.
Slant Magazine
It's like Fight Club without the tongue-in-cheek satire, cribbing from Gladiator, Braveheart, and every videogame that ever concluded a level with a giant boss battle.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Dark Horizons
Despite all the visual trickery and slick filmmaking, it can't really hide that underneath is a vehicle as clunky, empty and vacuous as a mediocre comic adaptation
It's kind of a ghastly hoot, and while I suppose it does no harm, it also contributes nothing. It's a guilty unpleasantness.
Washington City Paper
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.
OhmyNews.com
It's a fireworks show in the daytime, Christmas presents on December 26th, and porn without the penetration.
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| Original Score: D+
Antagony & Ecstasy
A typical stupid action movie, with an extra dollop of stupid on the side.
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| Original Score: 3/10
eFilmCritic.com
An overwrought, revved-up, and deeply silly symphony of clanging steel and spurting blood.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Keeping 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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
ColeSmithey.com
Apart from its pro-war propaganda, that comes in the form of unrelenting voice-over narration, "300" is a dog of a movie where cookie-cutter CGI battle scenes show thirty actors pretending to fight to the death.
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| Original Score: D
