So many comments praising this movie as the best of its class, and me quite liking the odd Sandals and Swords flick, I thought I should see it. Glad I didn’t pay to see it on the big screen.
A bunch of Men’s Health cloned cover models running around in undies day, night, summer and winter, poking sticks through things (mostly drag queens from evil Persia) as if they weren’t there. This is, mostly, because they weren’t there, as 85% of the movie comes out of a box, and you can tell. Which is exactly why all Spartans look alike, as do all 4 different types of Persian soldiers: ‘Immortals’ that perish in the thousands like suicidal lemmings. ‘Black Widow’ style Burka-wearing Moslem females throwing bombs, the odd desert Arabs and your regular Persian foot soldier. With number is the millions. Plus your choice of weirdo generals and leaders, that get mutilated before the Queen of the Night, Xerxes himself appears. He’s got piercings. Bad thing.
On the other side, 300 slighly homosexual WASPs (well, we all know the Spartans had a thing for little boys) fight off this army of black fags, stupid arabs, monsters, freaks and cross dressers. To underline the hero is actually hetero, he does his wife porn style, 300 positions in 5 blurry seconds (hey, I think there is a nipple slip somewhere in this scene, HOT!), and back to some explicit slaughtering. And to take on yet another clichee: crippels, sissies, gays, old, politicans and essentially all non-whites are bad. Real man have to suffer only because they can not express their love, but what the hell, at least they fear no death. Is this a recruiting movie to rally up soldiers for another gulf war or what? And from how many movies does this flick borrow ideas in a pathetically cheap way? This is Troy with only 3 real actors, plus a Gollum lookalike borrowed from LotR. Jeez. Get a life, watch a real movie…


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So, ich hab’s getan, ich war in Star Wars Episode III. Die Vorgänge aus Episode II hatte ich nur noch dunkel (haHA!) in Erinnerung, aber zum Glück macht sowas ja nichts. Der begehrte ‘ins-endlose-Universum-verschwindende’ Vorspann klärt ja in 3 Sätzen auf.