That's Hollywood

Rating: 4/10 (21 November 2007)

One of the great stories in history reduced to a comic book isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea. BUT to make it such a boring experience took some doing. The movie is one scene after another of "dramatic tension" consisting of moving from affectation to more affectation. Even the battle scenes have this formula. Someone says something, then someone says something louder, then they fight, then they fight louder. There is zero reality and zero humanity but posing, posturing and preening are tossed around like eggs at 50 cents a gross. Evenually what kills 300 is the lack of any genuine characters. All emotion is press board material, which suits comics but at 120 minutes becomes intolerable long before the last frame. People die, so what? This is one tedious movie.