So it was kind of disappointing, sure there was a ton of blood and gore, but the action felt so slow and drawn out. My god, after five minutes the slow-motion action scenes started taking their toll. Sure, I appreciated seeing Persian heads roll at 5 frames per second, but I can only take so much. Also, they had some weird casting choices, mainly the Persians themselves. Since when are Persians black? As in Black from Africa? I mean seriously. Persians look Mediterranean, not straight up black. Heck the Persian empire only included one part of Africa, Egypt, and last time I checked they didn't look too different from Greeks. Oh and there were weird mystical goats playing lyres in Xerxes tent, WTF?
So anyways, I'll talk about the movie. It was alright, expect the whole Queenny political thing was a little weak, it seemed like they just threw that in for effect to parallel the US in Iraq. The blood and guts was cool for a while, but just became a little repetitive. I'm sure you'll appreciate it if you're in to that kind of thing, but otherwise the movie is a waste of time, unless of course you like seeing muscular waxed men walking around in speedos. The plot is obvious, since it follows a fairly well known historical event; and it was fairly accurate. I mean sure they glossed over somethings and over did a few others, but the basic plot was followed. I rate the 300 a fair B-, there's not much reason to see it besides for the blood and guts action.
Oh and another thing, there was definitely quite a bit too much borrowing from other films. I mean you had a ton of Gladiator type effects and scenes which could have almost been ripped from it. Then there was the the Lord of the Rings influence: the Gollum-like hunchback, the Immortals looking like shiny Oruk-hai, the Elephant scenes. Plus Xerxes and all his henchmen (who were inaccurately portrayed as Black, WTF?, how hard is it to find a swarthy looking Italian to better fit the role) acted like Gou'ald from Stargate, they had that whole Egyptian theme and weird voices. Oh and the funny looking Ephors ring a bell? Palpatine anyone?