90% is historically accurate!

Rating: 2/10 (16 October 2007)

Imagine an Iranian director making a movie about 300 upright Cheyenne warriors making their last stand against the invasion of the cruel American army, lead by General Custer, an 8 ft. tall Drag Queen and made up entirely of mutants. There'd be an outcry, it would be labeled evil propaganda. But '300', noooo, this one's based on a comic!
If you're the kind of person who can switch off your mind during a movie, then maybe it's enjoyable. You must not think about any of it, otherwise it becomes ludicrous.
This is the kind of movie Joseph Goebbels would've weeped seeing. It has all the right fascist ingredients. The Spartans are surprisingly Caucasian for Ancient Greece, the only upright men are warriors, they love nothing better than to die for their country, their freedom, their hypocra....democracy. The Spartans are the Chosen Ones, everyone else is a wimp, a traitor or a weasel. And Persia is in the outer rim of Mordor.
Zack Snyder's claim that 90% of this crap is historically accurate is shameful!
And the movie itself? The dialog is about the worst I have ever heard, most of it sounded like Klingons talking. One could dub every single line with random fillings of words like honor, blood, glory, etc. and it wouldn't change anything. Visually, it looks like an FHM photo spread. If you hail to the almighty Photoshop, maybe you'll like it. It has no thrill, because you'll know when the Spartans will rip through a thousand men without breaking a sweat and you'll know when it's time for them to die heroically. The action itself is non existent, because all of it happens in slow motion. Half of the movie is Spartans slaughtering the others with the tried and trusted formula: evil one runs at hero, striking a blow, missing, hero cuts his throat.
The rest is just hollow. Depictions of Spartan hardness, which equals all things good. This is a movie that calls out to that shifty little figment of Manliness so many people have. People who talk about blood and honor, patriots, nationalists. People who think of battlefields as places where boys become men, where men become heroes. If you're one of them, by all means, go and see it, you'll love it!