Not what I had hoped for.
300 was a film I had been looking forward to for months. I was an enormous fan of Sin City, and while I know this was a different director, I was expecting something similar. The over-stylized shots, noir-cheese dialogue, absurdly badass characters, etc. Well this film tried all of those, but it came across as weak. I can't blame the dialogue for being corney in this film because I think they were going for that, but it was just delivered terribly. The acting was the part of the film that alienated me the most. Then there were the characters, all of whom I only laughed at because of how terrible the makeup or costumes were. And I was expecting the film to look like the trailer hinted at, but basically the "cool" shots were all crammed into the trailer, and didn't look nearly as cool in context to the rest of the film. The CGI was terrible. TERRIBLE. Any time it showed more than 50 people, it looked like Sim City for Sega Genesis. Well maybe not that bad. Anyways, you will all probably love this film. I would recommend this if you are: A. In High School (not a jab at high schoolers, i would have loved this myself in high school), B. You love movies that have "sweet action scenes", C. Your favorite band is KISS.