300 (2007)
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Cast
as King Leonidas
as Queen Gorgo
as Dilios
as Xerxes
as Daxos
as Ephialtes
as Stelios
as Astinos
as Loyalist
as Pleistarchos
as Slave Girl
as Slave Girl
as Slave Girl
as Slave Girl
as Slave Girl
as Slave Girl
as Slave Girl
as Asian Transsexual
as Arabian Transsexual
as Giant With Arrow
as Long-Necked Woman
as Litter-Bearer Slave
as Partisan
as Ephor No.1
as Elder Councilman
as Councilman
as Spartan Baby
as Spartan Baby
as Ephor No.3
as Ephor No.5
as Persian Emissary
as Giant Immortal
as Persian General
as Statesman
as Persian General
as Daughter at Market
as Girl at Market
as Ephor #4
as Boy at Market
as Potter
as Council Guard
as Armless Persian Concubine
as Persian Concubine No.1
as Kissing Persian Concubine No.1
as Kissing Persian Concubine No.2
as Dancer
as Dancer
as Dancer
as Persian General Slaughtered
as Teenaged Leonidas
as Mother at Market
as Persian Concubine No. 2
as Slave Girl
as Slave Girl
as Theron
as Young Leonidas
as Leonidas' Father
as Spartan With Stick
as Persian General
as Sentry No. 1
as Sentry No. 2
as Free Greek Potter
as Free Greek Sculptor
as Free Greek Blacksmith
as Contortionist
as Free Greek Baker
as Spartan General No. 2
as Spartan Boy
as Slave Girls
as Ephor No. 2
as Slaughtered Persian General
as Executioner
as Blacksmith
as Captain
as Oracle Girl
as Slave Girls
as Leonidas' Mother
as Burned Village Surviving Child
as Spartan General
as Slave Girls
as Messenger
as Persian
as Fighting Boy (12 Years Old)
as Transexual (Asian) #2
as Spartan Baby Inspector
as Ubermortal Vocals
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Critic Reviews for 300
All Critics (228) | Top Critics (47) | Fresh (137) | Rotten (91) | DVD (25)
300 has one-dimensional caricatures who talk like professional wrestlers plugging their next feud.
A muscle-magazine fantasy crossed with a video game and an Army recruiting film.
300 was as pathetically puerile as I had expected.
It might have been one of the great all-time mad, bad movies but for one thing - it's just sooo boring.
Part of the fascination of the Thermopylae story is that it really happened, and it helped define real heroism. There's nothing remotely like reality to be had in this film.
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?
Audience Reviews for 300
300' is a totally riveting masterpiece of film making. Zack Snyder, inspired by the graphic novel, has brought a 2487 year-old news story to life with people you really care about who are faced with choices between compromise and war that are all too familiar today. The breath-taking CGI images are flawlessly integrated with the live action. All the actors are excellent in their roles, and Butler IS Leonidas. The sound design is excellent. The score was recorded by the London Phil with a full chorus and is beautiful to listen to, but is very reminiscent of 'Gladiator' which detracts from the otherwise total originality of the film. This movie integrates the potentials of film-making and story-telling in a wonderful new way that is the best of both entertainment and artistic achievement. 4 Stars 9-24-07 (Updated)
Super Reviewer
Gerard Butler gives a commanding performance (the best of his career so far) as Spartan King Leonidas in this intense, surreal, epic, and beautifully shot, edited, and directed historical fantasy. Snyder has created a great and unique cinematic experience that, while not being completely historically accurate, is a wonderfully entertaining and stylish take on the Battle of Thermopylae in which a small group of Spartan warriors do battle against a vastly overwhelming number of Persians who wish to conquer them. Though this film is largely style over substance, it does have some deeper themes and what not going through it, chiefly that of fascism. You root for the Spartans, and you're rooting for fascism. Kinda like Starship Troopers though not quite as brilliant. The slow-mo gets a tad overused, and yeah, the Persians are undeniably portrayed as perhaps too fey and sibilant, but hell, this is fun, not art. I actually prefer this to the graphic novel it's based on because this has much more story and depth. All in all, a bloody good show.
Super Reviewer
Zack Snyder stays true to 300's comic book origins, and the style makes the story feel like something out of a myth. This definitely works to enhance the larger than life experience unfolding on screen. The animated blood effects make the film feel less gruesome than it could have been. A pretty solid, well rounded B-action picture.
Super Reviewer
300 Quotes
| Xerxes: | There will be no glory in your sacrifice. I will erase even the memory of Sparta from the histories! Every piece of Greek parchment shall be burned. Every Greek historian, and every scribe shall have their eyes pulled out, and their tongues cut from their mouths. Why, uttering the very name of Sparta, or Leonidas, will be punishable by death! The world will never know you existed at all! |
| King Leonidas: | Tonight, we dine in hell! |
| Xerxes: | Unlike the cruel Leonidas, who demanded that you stand. I require only that you kneel. |
| Persian: | A thousand nations of the Persian empire descend upon you. Our arrows will blot out the sun. |
| Stelios: | Then we will fight in the shade. |
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