Good visuals, but the script is for the brain-dead

Rating: 2/10 (23 March 2007)

I'm beginning to wonder if guys make themselves believe that they like this movie because they are supposed to like it. Come on!!! It is completely impractical to fight semi-naked like that. Were their fighting attire designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier? Even though I'm a woman, I happen to like war films -- even submarine films like Das Boot and K19 the Widow Maker. I just saw Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima recently and liked both films very much. But 300 is mostly hype. I admit that the visuals were good, but they're hardly original. 300 tries to bring in elements that made Gladiator and Sin City work, but it's missing something... dynamic characters with whom you empathize and who think intelligent thoughts. I winced each time I heard the narrator's voice. It was way too heavy-handed -- an utter insult to the audience's intelligence.