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300

300

2006

Zack Snyder

Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West ...

7.2

146,394

Action. War. Adventure. Fantasy Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. The story revolves around the battle of Thermopylae which took place 480 B.C., the film version of which, THE 300 SPARTANS, was to have a lasting impression on Miller as a child. Miller's comic refers ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The film '300' is about as violent as 'Apocalypto' and twice as stupid (...) Its muscle-bound, grunting self-seriousness is more tiresome than entertaining."	NEG
United Kingdom	Will Lawrence Empire	"Visually stunning, thoroughly belligerent and as shallow as a pygmy's paddling pool, this is a whole heap of style tinged with just a smidgen of substance (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'300' is a movie blood-drunk on its own artful excess. Guys of all ages and sexes won’t be able to resist it (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer	"'300' is one breathtaking digi-tableau after another. But the dialogue is a joke, the performances have more to do with bodybuilding than character, and the lesson that the film imparts isn't anything to do with courage and military skill"	NEU
United Kingdom	Alex von Tunzelmann The Guardian	"A truly horrible piece of cinema, unredeemed by historical value (...) Epic fail"	NEG
Canada	James Keast Exclaim!	"It's, at times, so over-the-top as to be laughable, but Snyder nevertheless taps into a primal instinct at the core of male viewers; if we were to be fighters, we'd be Spartans"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] has one-dimensional caricatures who talk like professional wrestlers (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"The result is a film that’s somehow both groundbreaking and derivative in equal measure"	NEU
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"The disconnect between the human actors and the digital backgrounds is more pronounced here than in a futuristic adventure"	NEG
United States	Dana Stevens Slate	"Visually, '300' is thrilling (...) But to cast '300' as a purely apolitical romp of an action film smacks of either disingenuousness or complete obliviousness"	NEU

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