Like gladiator, except, without a plot! - 300 Reviews

Basically the movie consisted of highly graphic, slow-motion scenes of essentially invincible Spartans slaughtering countless Persians with spears and the occassional sword. The movie consists of a lot of computer animation (everything but the main characters were animated), but it's so well done that while it's apparent that the continual slow-motion blood spatter isn't real, it satisfies its purpose of emphasizing the intensity of the battles. The war scenes are intended to be gory, lending high praise to the superior combat skills of the Spartans -- both the computer animation and slow motion achieve this effect. Now, I may be biased as a girl, but I found the multiple nude scenes (which occur mostly in the middle of the movie) to be rather pointless, except perhaps to reach out to the largely male audience. There are many scenes of bare-chested women -- none play any vital role to the storyline, so I found them to be quite distracting. The plot itself was rather bare, as the large majority of the movie was geared only toward the battle scenes, but I'll give it credit for maintaining a *direction* with its story (unlike Snakes on a Plane, for example). Overall? If you're looking for a movie that really emphasizes the Hercules-like skills in a group of 300 men, this is the one. The Spartans are strong, quick, highly aggressive, and smart -- and the movie's purpose appears solely to highlight this.