300
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A story very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians.
What critics thought
DivisiveZack Snyder's hyper-stylized Spartan epic split critics sharply: admirers found its visual ambition exhilarating, while detractors dismissed it as a hollow spectacle built on cardboard characters and troubling racial coding. General audiences responded far more warmly than the press, and the film's reputation has remained divided along those same lines.
“about as violent as Apocalypto and twice as stupid”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“300 has one-dimensional caricatures who talk like professional wrestlers plugging their next feud”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“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.”
Empire
“the Citizen Kane of cinematic graphic novels”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
“unless you love violence as much as a Spartan, Quentin Tarantino or a video-game-playing teenage boy, you will not be endlessly fascinated”
Kenneth Turan·Los Angeles Times
Genres
Action, Drama
Cast & Crew
Zack SnyderDirector
Gerard ButlerKing Leonidas
Lena HeadeyGorgo
Dominic WestTheron
David WenhamDilios/Narrator
Vincent ReganCaptain
Michael FassbenderStelios
Tom WisdomAstinos
Andrew PleavinDaxos
Andrew TiernanEphialtes
Rodrigo SantoroXerxes
Giovani CimminoPleistarchos
Stephen McHattieLoyalist
Tyler BatesComposer
Kurt JohnstadWriter
Frank MillerWriter
Larry FongCinematographyFrom the studio
300
A story very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians.
What critics thought
DivisiveZack Snyder's hyper-stylized Spartan epic split critics sharply: admirers found its visual ambition exhilarating, while detractors dismissed it as a hollow spectacle built on cardboard characters and troubling racial coding. General audiences responded far more warmly than the press, and the film's reputation has remained divided along those same lines.
“about as violent as Apocalypto and twice as stupid”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“300 has one-dimensional caricatures who talk like professional wrestlers plugging their next feud”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“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.”
Empire
“the Citizen Kane of cinematic graphic novels”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
“unless you love violence as much as a Spartan, Quentin Tarantino or a video-game-playing teenage boy, you will not be endlessly fascinated”
Kenneth Turan·Los Angeles Times
Genres
Action, Drama
Cast & Crew
Zack SnyderDirectorGerard ButlerKing LeonidasLena HeadeyGorgoDominic WestTheronDavid WenhamDilios/NarratorVincent ReganCaptainMichael FassbenderSteliosTom WisdomAstinosAndrew PleavinDaxosAndrew TiernanEphialtesRodrigo SantoroXerxesGiovani CimminoPleistarchosStephen McHattieLoyalistTyler BatesComposerKurt JohnstadWriterFrank MillerWriterLarry FongCinematographyFrom the studio
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