I watched it twice now there is almost 4 hours of Life I can't get back

Rating: 4/10 (23 April 2007)

It's not the worst movie I have ever seen and thankfully I didn't pay for the second trip to the movies.
This movie looks nice and the hype promises huge things..which is always a problem with hype as it build up expectation that just isn't satisfied.
now Mr Snyder seems to think this is a largely historically accurate movie. It may well be if this was Middle Earth but sadly just like elves and dwarfs, the immortal orcs, the olliphants and the like, just don't exist. Regardless of what a director thinks about his historical accuracy this movie is really only historically accurate it terms of the movie largely matches the Graphic novel that was released at some date in the past (making it history).
Some of the terms and actions used are laughable such as the reference to Athenians liking boys. coming from a group of men that lived together and well according to the Athenians did a great many other things together.
I would like to see a movie on the 300 Spartans that is closer to the histories. I didn't mind some of the mutants such as the hunchbacked Ephialtes as this reinforced the idea that he should have been killed at birth like Spartan law dictates...and I am sure that in the retelling of the story Ephialtes would have been portrayed as a sub-human and the large Xerxes as he is a Character from history that was usually referred to as looking down on his audience/enemies (whether this is due to him being carried around or his being tall doesn't really matter). Some of the mutants though just didn't add anything at all to the movie, such as the strange fat beheading choppy armed thing..
I think this movie will appeal more to the teenagers it has naked women, sex and for the girls a movie full of buff half naked men as well as beheading, blood and heroic fights against the odds...."Come for the Hype..stay for the boobs" I think should have been the slogan