Pretty lame.

Rating: 3/10 (4 October 2007)

Never in my life have I seen a movie as blatantly and tremendously overrated as this one is. And it's an even worse crime when such a hyped up movie sucks so much. There is a whole lot of praise heaped upon this one, and I suppose I'd describe the phenomenon as "low standards." People like this because they haven't seen anything better, and it's a crying shame, no sarcasm there. I've heard this movie called badass, which is a blatant lie, unless your definition of badass includes such fitting adjectives as "slow" and "boring." None of the much-lauded fight scenes here are stirring or bloody or exciting in the least, so you can just forget that.
People always say that you should watch flicks like this not expecting anything other than a good time, but I never expected anything other than that, and I still walked away disgusted. It fails even at being a dumb action movie, because this is just too dragging and dull and sappy for that. 300 is a lame, pre-processed piece of crap that the mainstream masses will eat up, but anyone who enjoys good cinema can safely avoid it. Plodding, weak and overall a waste of time. Truly awful.