Terrible piece of trash

Rating: 1/10 (2 February 2008)

Wow, I looked forward to this movie for months, expecting a sweeping epic, and instead received an over-edited, CGI filled, brainless gorefest of a mess. Imagine an all male Baywatch with swords, mixed with a bit of orc-slaying from Lord of the Rings, add a splash of gory technicolor, a snip of King Kong, and finally topped with a nice fat dollop of uber-testosterone, and you get "300".
Granted, the cinematography was beautiful. Actually, absolutely beautiful. But that does not excuse this movie from having zero depth, zero plot, zero character, and zero dialog. In fact, if you had just let a camera man loose with a CGI expert and a stuntman, they could have made 300.
People may say, "take this movie at face value", and "just be entertained by what it is". And honestly, I tried. But I just couldn't do it.