Kooky Junk with a few good fight scenes

Rating: 4/10 (15 May 2009)

A stark example of all style with no substance, "300" is essentially a gore-fest with gratuitous, gratuitous loads of poorly rendered blood splats and severed limbs. This limp biscuit of a story gets narrated through with hollow clunkiness and equally tattered story. Probably the worst liberty the filmmakers take is the "hoorah" call obviously aimed at military battle-goon-ship. Almost is bad is the background mismash of rock guitar swinging to opera singers in a schizo background music lineup. The only interesting scenes were the brief battle with the caged animalistic giant and a few of the battle choreographies. Everything else is squawky lines meant to sound magnanimous. The look is clearly the goal in this movie, and while it achieves golden color and some artsy backdrops, it cant pull any weight alone, since it has no anchor of story or solid characters to carry it. This movie is shameful at it puts gore, blood, and violence as virtuous. Pop kooky junk.....and poor.