Not for fans yet also not for casual movie goers

Rating: 4/10 (17 April 2009)

Zack Snyder somehow managed to fornicate with the corpse of the comic book and produce a bastard child that is rather untrue to the original story and amazingly also quite boring.
To my surprise plot elements were changed even when it didn't seem to help the movie and the ending was changed as if Snyder, Hayter and Tse (screenwriters) had some sort of personal vendetta against one particular character. Ultra violence is added where it is unneeded, yet it is removed in the one scene where it was essential to the story and message.
I read the comic rather recently and found it quite good, but unlike so many I didn't fall in love with it. I can see how it might have been something quite special if one read it around the time it was published, but to some degree I think it might have suffered like all giants that others have stood on the shoulders of - it doesn't seem all that special today.
My point is that I wasn't a die hard fan of the story going in, but respected it and liked the message or question it presents, yet the movie annoyed, disappointed and perhaps worst of all bored me enough to make me want to write this review... and I LIKED 300...