Forgettable

Rating: Null/10 (29 March 2007)

90 percent of this film is action and 9 out of the 10 action (battle scenes) are shot with slow motion effect. If you take the slow motion out, this film would have been over in twenty minutes. Which is exactly how long it took me to know that I wouldn't be running out and recommending it to my friends.
Based on the story by comic book famed Frank Miller who penned the brilliant Batman: Dark Knight graphic novel, 300 simply gets bogged down in overlong scenes of impaled soldiers, decapitations, CGI blood spatter and the heavy dose of cinematic machismo. This film is about a battle - that's understood going in, but it provides very little else. The scenes involving the queen Gorgo and the corrupt politician Theron, are done with about as much drama as two teen-agers getting sleazy behind the gym of their high school.
The battle scenes are good but get monotonous very quickly. I personally would have rather enjoyed going to the cinema to see a film treatment of Batman/Dark Knight instead - perhaps one day soon. For the hardcore Miller and comic book fiends, this film I'm sure is right up their alley with its edgy cliché's and filtered photography but most likely this movie will end up in the large crap-pile of movies that couldn't make the step from comic book to big screen because it had nothing to offer other than blood, bronze, hard bodies and firm nipples - of course for many film goers - that's enough. However its a shame that the actors who played the Spartans had to spend so much time in the weight room only to see their efforts wasted on a film that will be forgotten in a few years.