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300

2007
Drama, Fantasy
1h 57m
A ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite against their Persian enemy, drawing a line in the sand for democracy.
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300

2007
Drama, Fantasy
1h 57m
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Rated 03 Feb 2009
54
19th
A monumentally extended wank. Visually the battle scenes impress (CG blood, the capes, the shields), but they don't forgive the shouting, the slow-motion, the self-referencing, the 'sword as a penis' scene, the 'we're NOT gay' scenes, etc. I also want to hear Dilios' entire narration that is supposedly evoking these visuals: 'then this really fat bastard with swords for arms and chains attached to his nipples wearing only a dog collar and loin cloth, like totally chops the generals heads off'
Rated 01 Jan 2009
15
11th
I was shocked to find out that the working title of this film wasn't "300 Abuses of Slow-Motion Photography". Zack Snyder, who previously directed the horrid 2004 remake of "Dawn of the Dead", is a corporate turd disguising himself as a visionary film-auteur, & his adaptation of Frank Miller's engrossing graphic novel is a tedious and turgid bore. This is the ultimate outing of post-Matrix retardation. Probably the lamest use of green-screen technology to date
Rated 26 Feb 2008
50
8th
Fills a much-needed gap between gay porn and recruitment film.
Rated 24 Jul 2007
49
45th
It looks very nice. Beyond that, it's more of a movie to titilate straight male viewers with homosexual themes under the guise of hyper-macho warfare. C'mon. You guys all know you wanted to finger King Leonidas' butt.
Rated 08 Apr 2012
1
2nd
When all those insufferable movie snobs turn their noses up at the general public for contaminating market forces, this is the shit they're thinking of.
Rated 14 Mar 2007
13
2nd
Entertainment for kids, with muscle but no brain.
Rated 07 Sep 2007
10
7th
80-90 minutes of mostly naked, greased up muscle guys penetrating small, flamboyant Persians with pointy objects. Point out that this is the gayest fucking thing ever to your friends, and get ready to witness the glory of faux masculine nerd rage. Plotwise, this corny as fuck rightist propaganda gets shittier and shittier with each passing year.
Rated 10 Mar 2007
91
85th
This is an incredible movie! Each aspect of the film feeds off each other, the characters, cinematography, script, sound, everything; making this the ultimate popcorn action movie. Why can't more movies be this good? It captured the true spirit of the Spartan's stand.
Rated 06 Apr 2007
3
28th
After shooting Zack Snyder realized that he only had one hour worth of footage. In a panic, he was very worried and didn't know what to do. He then put almost every scene in slow mo to get the appropriate feature length time and fool millions of people into thinking this was a good movie.
Rated 20 Mar 2007
35
25th
To much yellow, to much exaggeration for a fantastic movie and defective screenplay, no deepness or details of the affair. Unnecessary demagogy about freedom and democracy.
Rated 02 May 2007
13
10th
The moment "Freedom isn't free" is spoken, this movie asserts itself as a political allegory. Next time, perhaps, could we refrain from making America the baby-killing, diplomacy-hating, unbelievably homoerotic group of he-men?
Rated 23 May 2007
95
97th
good acting, amazing filming, a lot of blood and action! a must-see!!
Rated 10 Mar 2007
80
85th
Despite the RIDICULOUS amount of anticipation I had for this movie, it ended up not letting me down at all. It was amazing, one of the most visually stunning things ever (especially on IMAX). It captured the feel of the comic perfectly, and had my jaw dropped and my heart pumping. Yes, it's style over substance, yes it's incredibly shallow, but who gives a fuck. Naysayers be damned, 300 is goddamned incredible.
Rated 17 Oct 2016
85
63rd
One of the best screensavers you'll ever watch.
Rated 12 Mar 2009
78
73rd
The movie was incredibly thrilling on the big-screen, but flops a bit on DVD. The visual experience is still marvelous, but the movie feels a bit flat without an audience audibly reacting to its most visceral moments. It's easy to look for some kind of racist War on Terror commentary in the story, but I don't think Snyder or Miller had that intent. The point is to be entertained, and for the most part the film does a fine job of that. Butler owns the screen with all the charm of a young Connery.
Rated 04 Apr 2007
40
11th
The visuals are dazzling but the movie lacks of excitement., It's like watching dead images in movement. If it wasn't that empty, it would be truly "glorious".
Rated 10 Mar 2007
44
27th
An unfulfilling experiance, it's repetitive and boring. A few great moments aren't enough to carry the film for the entire length. The cast is almost entirely terrible, even for an action movie. 300 was a great disapointment, it failed were Sin City suceeded.
Rated 28 Feb 2008
0
0th
Okay we get it, Spartans were gay. Jesus Christ...
Rated 02 Sep 2008
20
4th
If the whole movie had no slow-motion it would be 45 minutes long. A painfully dumb, homophobic, racist, bigoted, misogynistic film that would be campy - and therefore redeemable - if it didn't take itself so seriously. (It might also be a subversive way for Republican morals to interact with homoeroticism, but that's just a theory. I had the time since I spaced out a lot.) The rape scene is criminal. Basically, it pissed me off.
Rated 25 Mar 2007
65
51st
A faithful rendering of the comic book, but of course that means tons of silly posturing. Without the hardbitten narration and dialog of Sin City, this "uber-epic" seems as one dimensional as the comic book page. David Wenham is so hammy in his line delivery, I laughed at almost everything he said. Some fine action sequences, though. There were so many buff dudes getting impaled on giant spears it was practically gay porn.
Rated 11 Mar 2007
80
78th
Awesome. I love how this story was told with Homeric values. The visuals were also pretty amazing. There are some flaws but, in general, it's a fantastic action flick.
Rated 31 Jul 2009
68
63rd
300 homosexuals kill lots of people... creatively.
Rated 29 Jul 2011
96
95th
This is fucking Sparta!!
Rated 15 Aug 2008
86
79th
A beautifully constructed film in the tradition of "Sin City" with cinematography that would make the original Matrix proud. The most imitated and quoted movie of the year was also a groundbreaking vision for future cinema.
Rated 28 Feb 2008
74
55th
The film seems to operate in two modes: awesome and ridiculous. I liked the hyperstylized look and thought the battle scenes were fantastically done - I especially appreciated that the phalanx fighting was shown before progressing to the more Homeric one on one form. The dialogue is sometimes clever, but a lot of corny and hackneyed stuff could have been cut. Also there are a fair number of ridiculous scenes that made me giggle. All in all, though, a very entertaining feature.
Rated 10 Mar 2007
95
97th
300 did everything perfectly. It told the story, which happens to be one of the greatest ever told (not an opinion, but rather a fact), in a manner that transitions gloriously to film. The visuals are breath-taking, and the action will shake you. The plot, extended beyond Frank Miller's fantastic book, enriches the emotion and meaning of the story without altering the original Spartan passion. Awesome!
Rated 31 Dec 2007
22
8th
Another perfect adaption of a misogynistic, juvenile Frank Miller book. With added homophobia, as well. It looks just like the pages, and Gerard Butler gives a great Bill the Butcher impression, but the fight scenes got old quick, the rape scene was shameful, and everything else was tedious.
Rated 11 Feb 2008
60
37th
I went in expecting a movie about bowling. I was sorely disappointed.
Rated 04 Oct 2007
74
69th
Yelling "This is SPARTA!" and kicking things gets me through slow days at work.
Rated 09 Dec 2007
2
15th
Cheesy as hell. Awesome as hell, at times. But mostly cheesy as hell. TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELLLLL
Rated 04 Feb 2008
1
6th
A one-dimensional, cheesy, artificial, shallow, macho, disingenuous effects flick. This is pretty much what's wrong with modern American movies.
Rated 08 Mar 2008
91
90th
Fantastic "my comic is moving in front of me" feeling. Battle scenes were just breathtaking. And to those who are sayint "it's not realistic, it's shallow, is full of cliches..." I can just say "IT'S COMIC, IT'S NOT SUPOSE TO BE REAL, THIS IS NOT DISCOVERY". But some part's can be less slow...
Rated 20 Apr 2007
80
68th
Over-the-top and I loved every minute of it! Visually it is just an incredible movie. I dare you to find a more manly movie. They wouldn't let women into the theatre when I saw it. I can't make it through this movie without taking off my shirt.
Rated 31 Dec 2008
90
94th
Funny cause its true. No wait, spectacular because its true. Hell of a film, looks fantastic and there's some great fighting. Empire complained about the slow mo being over used but I don't think that's the case. It has its slow moments and I think expanding the love story stuff was a bit much but it has a good pay off so is worth it. Whoever suggested Borat as a "more like this" was high btw. That or they got more out of the gay wrestling scene than I did....
Rated 18 Mar 2007
63
30th
Though for the most part the action sequences are cool and fun to watch, the movie takes itself overly serious and the dialog is atrocious. There is much to be desired but ultimately the movie is fun, despite its glaring flaws.
Rated 24 Mar 2007
80
81st
Mythologized story of the 300 spartans. Despite the hype, it was still crap-my-pants entertaining and I was simply unable to look away at any point during this movie. I thought the simple yet emotionally evocative story and dialogue were enough for the stunning visuals to stand on. That's all I was hoping for, and it fully delivered.
Rated 12 Dec 2010
70
65th
I wonder if it will be remembered as the last barbaric yarp of masculinity, before our feminist society will outbreed the male, while secretly lamenting his demise. This buffed, brutal and stylized take on the myth of the battle of Thermopylae must have threatened the world of fat film critickers, as they promptly evoked the might of Goodwin's law, complaining about the 'fascist' politics. They missed the fact that it's a simple, pretty enjoyable fable, with one of the great memes of the decade.
Rated 20 Apr 2007
4
55th
Mindless fun. I'm not sure which of the aforementioned deserves emphasis.
Rated 30 Jul 2013
1
1st
a fantastic example of modern fascist aesthetic. the slow-mo styling is incredibly well-done and perhaps even beautiful, and yet this savage beauty only seeks to magnify to the film's brutally masculinist psyche. 300 is at once aesthetically extraordinary and ideologically repugnant, endowing it with a dangerous amount of cultural affective capability.
Rated 06 Jul 2010
0
8th
Leonidas was as hot as the scorching Grecian sun shining upon the well-built, oiled bodies of Spartan men. The soundtrack - albeit thieved - was enjoyable but as Wanda would say, to call this movie stupid would be an insult to stupid movies. The corny rape scene left me painfully unconcerned and overall it felt like some cheap, trashy parody with no sense of humour. However, I particularly loved Xerxes' lipstick.
Rated 17 Sep 2007
80
81st
Great aesthetics, uncompromising action sequences. A bit to much of a freak show at times. It weakens when it leaves the battlefield to show the ones that stayed back in sparta.
Rated 10 Jul 2012
74
59th
A simple-minded but visually exciting experience, full of blood, violence, and ready-made movie quotes.
Rated 13 Mar 2009
72
80th
Not my favourite history-movie, I like more Gladiator or Braveheart. For me too much slow-motion scenes and a not intresting story.
Rated 25 Mar 2007
50
22nd
While it does feature some very captivating imagery, this movie is mostly content to just be a long blood-soaked battle sequence. There is a complete lack of good characterization, so the movie has a numbing effect once it hits the half way mark.
Rated 17 Apr 2008
34
13th
A neat-looking film. Amusingly overacted and completely void of character development, yet it's not quite bad enough to be enjoyably bad, either. Unfortunately, literally every female character in this film is either a whore or a rape victim by the end. Shameless.
Rated 22 Aug 2009
37
4th
The male cast redefines physical fitness. 300 is really a vehicle to sell homo-erotic man candy to the unwitting straight male American "football" crowd. Redefines awful cinema. Between the nonsensical plot, made up history, constant shouting, the painfully slow-mo HD combat scenes covering for lack of realistic fight choreography, the warning flags should be up. Soldiers wear thongs and capes into battle? Really? This is the gayest "straight" movie since Top Gun.
Rated 02 Aug 2009
45
21st
All it has going for it is several hundred well-built men running around in nothing but capes and leather speedos.
Rated 05 Feb 2012
30
7th
This is everything that is wrong with films in 90 minutes. What is the point of this pathetic piece of bilge? it neither educates (being woefully inaccurate) or entertains (unless cartoon gorefests are your thing) and portrays "the enemy" as nothing but a bunch of grotesques (and not only the enemy - anyone who is not a "hero"). Gerard Butler does a "George Clooney does Braveheart" impression throughout and the only saving graces are Lena Headey and the artistic design; both stunning
Rated 25 Jan 2009
75
74th
Pure testosterone movie, a lot of effects. Gotta love Greek history full of war.
Rated 27 Dec 2007
0
4th
THIS IS A SPAHKLAH
Rated 16 Mar 2012
5
0th
Sin City meets Braveheart meets Gladiator meets Lord of the Rings meets... Well, why don't we say just ''rip-off''? Prepare for bullshit. They will rescue a world from mysticism. LOL I bet you will hate this movie since the very first frame. Yes, 5 points for Xerxes though.
Rated 23 Jul 2009
30
12th
Xerxes must be rolling in his grave.
Rated 25 Dec 2007
25
9th
Could've been so much better. Worst thing about it was the lousy soundtrack.
Rated 23 Mar 2008
44
19th
All style and no substance. If you like a 2 hour slo-mo fight scene, see it. Otherwise, skip it.
Rated 10 Mar 2007
54
47th
Uninspired dialog, but interesting visuals, this movie fails to deliver solid combat scenes (which should have been it's strongest point) or even echo historical accuracy. A single shield push is the only evidence of actual phalanx combat or tactics. The thrown in sci-fi elements are a further detraction. Avoid this film on principle or, if nothing else, it's failure to capture the imagination, spirit, or even significant interest.
Rated 26 Jul 2010
20
0th
A horrific film. Brutal, unnecessarily violent, cartoonish, ridiculous, bloodlust, boring, Zack Snyder's militaristic adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel is insulting and, worst of all, it's not even interesting.
Rated 31 Mar 2007
75
65th
Yes, it's cheesy as hell at some points. Yes, the story is shallow. Yes, at certain times the CGI is subpar (though this is rare, for the most part it's absolutely stunning). However, this doesn't matter. No movie has ever kicked this much ass. It's as if they took the best battle scene of all time, stretched it over 2 hours and made it 10 times better. Also, the slow-motion bits work very well. Superb, though shallow.
Rated 21 Jul 2008
66
48th
An epic, mythologically medieval Greek retelling of the ancient confrontational gorefest between the Spartans and Persian army. The cinematography of the battle processions are glorious in appearance. Watching our warriors eradicately extirpate and neutralize the nemesis is quite a contemplation. Everything else is quite filler. The montage explaining Leonidas' rise to kingdom was unneeded too. Not to reference the facist and homoerotic undercurrents. But then again: "This is Sparta!"
Rated 16 Apr 2007
75
77th
Thoroughly enjoyable and visually jaw-dropping, 300 managed to keep my boyish enthusiasm at near boiling point throughout its fight scenes. The "flashbacks" to Sparta, however, left a lot to be desired and the film would've been strengthened without the cheesy political subplot and the ultra-corny freedom-isn't-free lines.
Rated 11 Aug 2007
39
18th
By following the Sin City model with 300, Zack Snyder made a film that is garish and silly. Sin City worked because comic creator Frank Miller's original concept was a highly exaggerated version of film noir. Transplanting that drawn-and-inked imagery to the movie screen was simply bringing the concept full circle. More than Sin City ever did, 300 looks like nothing more than a fanboy dream of seeing a favorite comic story manipulated into motion. Beyond that, it has little reason for being.
Rated 15 Jan 2008
86
80th
Brain-dead chop-fest of fun. Delivering some truly badass lines and fantastic Graphic Novel-style visuals, 300 is lighthearted fun that isn't hard to enjoy at all. Shut of the nonvital parts of your brain, watch and enjoy every second of it.
Rated 09 Mar 2007
55
39th
Theatrical experience was fun and badass. In retrospect the movie itself is tired and repetitive, not to mention shallow. Although it is a very pretty movie. Also, it's nice to see all the Spartan men found the time to shave their bodies in-between all that AH-OOHing and killing babies and kicking people down wells.
Rated 08 Oct 2007
80
80th
This is Sparta! The movie in general is very good, photography and great actings. I was impressed with the digital effects in which the film is based almost entirely.
Rated 14 Jul 2008
0
2nd
There is nothing redeemable about 300.
Rated 17 Feb 2014
5
0th
Zack Snyder's 300 charts the Battle of Thermopylae according to Frank Miller's stylised graphic novel. The dialogue is awful, the acting is entirely unconvincing, and worst of all the film takes itself far too seriously. The battle scenes, using near-endless amounts of slow-motion, grow tiring very quickly, and the cinematography is horrible. If this is what the modern epic looks like, cinema should be worried.
Rated 17 May 2008
78
66th
Full of action, and definitely original, but ultimately is hollow and pointless. The whole slow motion fighting begins to wear on the entertainment value toward the end--and it just feels like a gimmick to make the fighting seem longer than it really is.
Rated 27 Jun 2008
25
14th
It's got a pretty look to it, yes. But there's really not much here. Bad narration, no plot, flat characters, dubious ideology, heinous overuse of slow motion, bad music. If you want to see a rotoscoped Frank Miller story, stick with Sin City, which was made by a talented director with talented actors. This is just a testosterone fest for shallow adolescents, and I don't usually make judgments like that.
Rated 25 Aug 2008
20
2nd
Having seen and actually liked "Sin City", I tried "300" as well but it was just awful. Nothing of the comic style that was so typically attached to "Sin City". Additionally, it was really boring and I cannot udnerstand why so many people like this movie.
Rated 30 Apr 2007
81
90th
great action, great filming, great acting
Rated 05 May 2008
40
18th
I'm not even going to give it a token 50 for "moderate entertainment" simply because of how stupid the non-war plot was.
Rated 06 Jun 2011
19
7th
I really think the "look" of this movie (though not the editing) deserves more respect than it gets; it's often treated as a gimmick, but I think it actually reflects quite a mature and sophisticated aesthetic vision. Beyond that, the film is mainly interesting on the meta level: there are only a few hints that the movie may be more self-aware than it's usually assumed to be, but an ironic interpretation is obvious. It seems almost intended as a litmus test for fascistic personality.
Rated 10 Mar 2007
46
32nd
The only part I liked about this movie were the extremely well done fighting sequences, and the scenes leading up to them.
Rated 25 Aug 2007
20
7th
Takes too long to get to the fighting, pointless subplot, terrible soundtrack and bad choreography. Not as visually pleasing as Sin City.
Rated 05 Sep 2010
28
0th
If you forgot to buy a present, you can't just wrap "nothing" up in Sin City CGI visuals. It doesn't count!
Rated 30 Oct 2008
70
48th
If you want all style and no substance, look no further.
Rated 28 Aug 2009
1
1st
The most bored I've ever been in a theater. Fuck this shit.
Rated 12 Mar 2007
60
41st
The action is filmed well, and the story is interesting. Unfortunately, the dialogue and sub-plots are frustratingly bad. Violence felt gratuitous, but it is a Miller!
Rated 26 May 2008
40
1st
Yawn. Excessive color grading and slo-mo are getting really long in the tooth and even the decidedly mediocre Gladiator had everything this movie had and then some, including subplots, memorable characters and a story arc, all of which this one is lacking. Here it's just death after death after death interrupted only by either barely legal boobs or gnarly faces every now and then. And FYI re political subtext: in the "evil turrist" mindset, USA=Persians. Think about it for a moment, mmkay.
Rated 19 Nov 2009
40
15th
I really didn't enjoy this one. I knew it was going to be stupid, but i couldn't appreciate its action either.
Rated 20 Mar 2007
55
39th
Pure eye candy - no more, no less.
Rated 27 Feb 2008
93
99th
Amazin. Milestone in moviemakin'.
Rated 10 Jan 2010
35
27th
Iran complained about the depiction of Persians in this movie, that's hilarious. Zack Snyder literally raised tensions in the Middle East.
Rated 15 Mar 2007
87
88th
Visually it is an absolutely beautiful film, the Oracle dance is breathtaking. Every action sequence is nothing short of sheer perfection, honestly this movie will become text book "how to make ass-kicking look awesome." Certainly the plot is on the thin side but it is told in the manner of a glorious psyching-up legend that it feels just right. Gerard Butler is fantastic as the larger-than-life Leonidas and I thought the rest of the cast did decent jobs all around.
Rated 12 Feb 2010
25
13th
Saved from a lower rating only by its unintentional hilarity.
Rated 24 Apr 2010
50
9th
this is sparta... this movie spawned one of the most epic memes of all time
Rated 21 Jul 2009
65
38th
Very pretty, but very hollow
Rated 02 Jul 2008
0
8th
bored
Rated 24 Apr 2014
10
5th
A screaming meat parade of caricatures destroy all opposition, including Persians, political correctness and the audience. All of the action scenes are interchangeable, and the little story it does have is trite at best and abhorrent at worst, featuring one of the most misguided uses of rape as a plot point ever committed to film. Zack Snyder is a corporate shill disguised as some kind of auteur, and he's also a 13-year-old boy disguised as an adult man. I'd like to kick -him- down a well.
Rated 17 Sep 2007
40
38th
Slow motion ruins the movie. no story. overall bad.
Rated 08 Apr 2007
86
89th
A visual spectacular top to bottom, and Gerard Butler holds you in his grip throughout the film. The movie looks so impressive and manages to be so entertaining you forget you can't take any of this seriously.
Rated 12 Aug 2008
55
16th
the trailer was the best :(...
Rated 02 Apr 2010
38
5th
the name of this film should be "Prepare For Sixpacks"
Rated 13 Mar 2007
50
17th
To say that this movie is offensive to Persians is giving it way too much intellectual credit. It's just a surprisingly boring action movie with the typical battle speech after battle speech story structure.
Rated 27 Apr 2008
40
16th
mtv style macho shit
Rated 11 Oct 2007
10
2nd
Sarah Silverman says it best, when she asserts that this movie got its title from being rated on a scale of 1-10 on how gay it is.
Rated 23 Sep 2011
20
1st
Everything that's bad about modern day movies packed into one god aweful movie.
Rated 30 Mar 2007
96
97th
It is definitely not perfect movie, but it is, like House of Flying Daggers, so breathtaking that it makes you forgive its weak points. And that counts for me, no matter what anyone might say!
Rated 10 Feb 2008
5
12th
Boring... i didn't really see the point in it...
Rated 05 Oct 2011
21
2nd
My ex-girlfriend liked this one. I had to break-up with her...
Rated 03 Jul 2009
73
51st
While 300 is in no way a masterpiece, it does have charismatic leads, a lot of cool sounding, memorable one-liners, nicely choreographed action and an interesting visual style... as long as you ignore all the awful looking fake blood.

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