Don't even bother

Rating: 1/10 (24 March 2007)

Have you seen the trailer? Then don't bother paying good money to watch this. And don't buy the DVD. It's trash.
Far too much slow motion, especially during the fight scenes. Not enough concentration on the fight scenes ( I wish they'd watched Troy before they made this, the fight scenes in this might not have looked so bad then).
The story is already set in stone, 300 Spartans against an army of thousands. their all going to die, it's just a matter of when, how and how long it will take for them to die.
This isn't based on total historic fact, it's an adaptation of a graphic novel (for which read Comic Book!). it's mainly shot on green screen and uses lot's of CGI which is painfully obvious.
It show's it's comic book roots in the fact that there is little to no character development.
OK, yes. we follow how a Spartan child becomes a warrior. then you see the wolf and even John Landis must have been laughing at that having created a better wolf in the 1970's for American Werewolf In London.
the King of the Spartans is a good character, and the guy who has sex with his wife - Well, you know she's going to kill him once he spills the beans on her bedroom activities.
the fact he was being paid by Xerxes was quite a good and unexpected twist.
i would have liked to have seen the final battle that was about to start as the film finished. i assume they left that open to make a sequel.
generally this was very poor. it shows how a well cut trailer can make a bad film look really good.