Wait and Rent It

Rating: 5/10 (13 March 2007)

When I went to watch 300, I expected the next huge action flick, but found only disappointment. My biggest problem with this film is the acting. The characters just weren't all there in their roles, and they weren't as rounded out as I would like. I think the writers tried to hard for the memorable battle speeches at several points, and at others times I felt they could have used more monologue. I will credit the film, however, on it's interesting style used for the combat scenes, but even those slow motion sequences became less interesting the more they were overused. Another minor detail I noticed was that even though their enemies were spewing blood with every stab and slice, the Spartans seemed to remain relatively clean through most of the movie, showing little to no signs of blood spatter from their opponents.
My advice is to wait for this one to come to Blockbuster and save the trip to the theater for another day.