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I finally watched 300, which was gloriously mediocre at best. It's a perfect example of a movie studio taking a film that is a cheesy b-movie and using marketing to sell it as the next big blockbuster. The best thing I can say for the film is that it looks great. I'd have to think for awhile to come up with something more than that. The acting is over the top at best, and downright embarrassing at worst. Leonidas barks a lot and does his best Braveheart speech imitation every ten minutes (which is never very good), his wife looks smug or angry, the one father-son duo try to show emotion, and the rest of the Spartans yell. The plot is fairly dull and the even the combat itself- the obvious draw for the film- is relatively unexciting. 300 reduces warfare to a slow-motion ballet that is interesting for all of ten minutes, and then usually drags. Okay, so maybe I'm being a little harsh and it's not quite that boring, but it could have been much more exciting. I kept feeling sense of déjà vu for Braveheart and Return of the King anytime someone gave another mediocre speech for freedom or when the next exotic adversary was introduced. Question: Can anyone tell me what Frank Miller's obesession with freaky deformed people is? First we saw them in Sin City and now in 300. Weird.

300 = 2 out of 5 Davies