Simply Avg

Rating: 5/10 (20 April 2009)

There is not much to say about Synder's 300. It is an avg action flick, a bit of a return to the 1980's, early 90's action films. Not in style of course, Tango & Cash lacked any of the cool special effects or men in speedos.
But the film is filled with non-stop action that is largely repetitive and when people aren't being slaughtered, there are plenty of witty retorts to go around.
300 starts off as an interesting story but about 1/3rd of the way through Synder decides to abandon an actual story and simply become an all action movie, Braveheart without a brain.
This is not entirely his fault as he putting Frank Miller's graphic novel vision to film and not really his own. As a translator (as is seen in his far superior work The Watchmen) he is very capable. Creating the essence of Miller's 300 onto moving film. And like the graphic novel, the movie is all show and little substance, with little to no concern for actual history (but that is true of even the most serious historical films).
An avg popcorn flick.