Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper |
10 |
...the Citizen Kane of cinematic graphic novels. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
6 |
...a fairly entertaining bloodbath designed to put audiences ringside in the cage match of the 5th Century B.C.... |
E!
Alex Markerson |
9 |
...has a plot, actors and dialogue, but if you stripped those things away you'd still have a stunning piece of filmmaking on your hands, a giddily gory, supercharged comic book that is, for action-movie fans, one money shot after another. |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
8 |
...ridiculously stylish and commendably substantive. |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
5 |
...less a salute to the Braveheart school of right-wing action movies than a parody of them. Its philosophical underpinnings are not freedom and courage but Itchy and Scratchy. |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh |
7 |
...pure brawny spectacle, teaming with beasts, blood, brains (splattered), battle axes and rock-ribbed warriors dressed in swirling scarlet capes and tiny, fetishistic, leather man-panties. |
Reel
Tim Knight |
5 |
...ultimately just an epic video game. |
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager |
4 |
If 300 is a triumph, it's only one of superficial aesthetics... |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
7 |
...fanboys will thrill to the carnage and presumably forgive the puffed-up dialogue and regrettable lack of characterization. 300 is a movie blood-drunk on its own artful excess. Guys of all ages and sexes won't be able to resist it. |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
7 |
Look, but don't be touched: There is much to see but little to remember in this telling of a battle we are meant never to forget. |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
2 |
...about as violent as Apocalypto and twice as stupid... |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
5 |
...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. |
People
Leah Rozen |
4 |
I say, give me liberty -- but spare me silly, jingoistic balderdash like this. |
LA Weekly
Nathan Lee |
3 |
At once homophobic and homoerotic, 300 is finally, and hilariously, just hysterical. |
Village Voice
Nathan Lee |
3 |
At once homophobic and homoerotic, 300 is finally, and hilariously, just hysterical. |
Onion AV Club
Tasha Robinson |
5 |
...so relentlessly artificial that it's hard to tell where the actors' bodies end and the CGI begins. But did every other aspect of the film have to be just as synthetic? |
Maxim
Pete Hammond |
9 |
300 is a landmark motion picture, a spectacular visual feast that is as inventive and groundbreaking as The Matrix. |
Premiere
Glenn Kenny |
5 |
...visually grand, but the kinetic kick never quite coheres. |
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer |
5 |
Just about everything in this pea-brained epic is overscaled and overwrought -- it's a cartoon trying to be a towering triptych. |
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