300... Meh+.
Watchable flick, gorgeous cinematography, gorgeous effects work, except for the horrible blood splatter particle system (I know interns that could make better looking blood particles...), zero story, frequently bad dialog.
I was hoping it would blow me away, like Sin City, but it stopped at just being a beautiful action flick. I put it roughly on the level of "The Cell", or whatever that D'Оnofrio/JLo flick was callеd. Lots of style‚ mediocre ѕubstancе.
That said‚ Snyder iѕ bеcoming more and more The Man. The Dawn of the Dead "re-imagining" was fantastic‚ and 300 iѕ wondеrfully directed. I can't wait to see this guy do more movies. It's been awhile since we had a purely watchable action director (Paul Greengrass being a little too cerebral to be merely "watchable", and not strictly an action guy anyway...).
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