300
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: March 9, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
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Mixed or average reviews based on 42 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
16
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
VarietyTodd McCarthy
A blustery, bombastic, visually arresting account of the Battle of Thermopylae as channeled through the rabid imagination of graphic novelist Frank Miller. Read full review
60
EmpireWill Lawrence
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. Read full review
50
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMichael H. Kleinschrodt
There's no denying that 300 has its viscerally charged moments, but it would be a lot more fun if it didn't take itself quite so seriously. You don't get to be pretentious when you've populated your film with androgynous kings, lesbian concubines and giant elephants. [9 March 2007, p.4]
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
300 is "Gladiator" for the gamer set. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Just about everything in this pea-brained epic is overscaled and overwrought – it's a cartoon trying to be a towering triptych. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
300 is something to see, but unless you love violence as much as a Spartan, Quentin Tarantino or a video-game-playing teenage boy, you will not be endlessly fascinated. Read full review
50
PremiereGlenn Kenny
That it's so flat as an action movie probably has a lot to do with why people might prefer to jawbone over its putatively controversial aspects--there's really not much of a “wow” factor to revel in. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
There's a stale, synthetic airlessness about the movie. Imagine a large cast trapped in a series of spectacular screensavers. It could be ancient Greece. It could be somebody's hard drive. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The disconnect between the human actors and the digital backgrounds is more pronounced here than in a futuristic adventure like "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow," and because classic Hollywood cinema is so rich with epic images of antiquity, this can't help but seem chintzy. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle Smith
Sensory gluttony is reason enough to see a movie, and few epics overstuff the eyes like this one. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
Part of the fascination of the Thermopylae story is that it really happened, and it helped define real heroism. There's nothing remotely like reality to be had in this film. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
My deepest objection to the movie is that it is so blood-soaked. When dialogue arrives to interrupt the carnage, it's like the seventh-inning stretch. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
It has to be said that there is a level of cheerfully self-aware ridiculousness, which means that 300 is not entirely without entertainment value. Read full review
40
Time OutDavid Fear
A fun-sapped maelstrom without meaning, 300 simply pummels you with endless loops of battle-porn. While you couldn’t classify the movie as entertainment, it might have a long, prosperous future as a Clockwork Orange–style Ludovico Technique. Read full review
40
SlateDana Stevens
300 will be talked about as a technical achievement, the next blip on the increasingly blurry line between movies and video games. Read full review
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting. Read full review
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