Pass the Cranberry Sauce.

Rating: Null/10 (5 April 2007)

Overbearing, overwrought, over-exaggerated mess in the film-making tradition of "Sin City" and "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" as the focus is the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. where 300 Spartans tried to defend their empire against the Persians. Gerard Butler leads the titled group and David Wenham serves as one of his top soldiers in the charnel house vomitorium of violence and basic exploitation tactics that wore thin way back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The acting is sophomoric, the direction is confusing and unclear and the screenplay could have been penned better by middle school students. Sickening movie tries to engross with action that honestly is mundane and boring. Based on Frank Miller's ho-hum graphic novel. A box office monster that unfortunately has absolutely no critical bite. Turkey (0 stars out of 5).