Not bad but not great!

Rating: 6/10 (1 June 2007)

At times this show seemed quite cartoonish and unreal. Most of the characters were one dimensional. Unlike Gladiator where the audience had a good understanding of the bad guy and came to hate him by the movies end, I felt no real animosity against Xerxes. The plot as it unfolded and the so called reason for the 300 fighting the Persian Hordes made no sense whatsoever. I read somewhere in a history book that it was a delaying tactic to hold the Persian hordes up while the Greek army could form up and prepare. That makes more sense than the reason given in this movie. The fight scenes have all been done before and much better(Troy, Braveheart, Gladiator, and the latest Bond movie). Unlike Braveheart and Gladiator I was not left feeling sad at the hero's demise, as the movie did not have that magic that makes the audience care about the characters.