Bared essentials...

Rating: 5/10 (22 March 2007)

300 is a movie stripped to its bare essentials in every sense of the phrase. Storywise, it could be recounted on the head of a pin- with plenty of space left over. Acting doesn't really enter into it, as there isn't any: the actors themselves are mere set-pieces, and trot about in the nearly naked spouting clichés we've heard spouted by players in every forgettable TV series or fantasy film set among the toga-draped for the past 2,000 years. Like its second cousin on its father's side, SIN CITY, 300 almost manages to dispense entirely with the bothersome human element. The result is a virtual movie that's almost the next-best thing to watching a video game on the Big Screen. Almost.