Given the quality of the main cast, the number of extras engaged, and the storyline, it's hard to see how this film could fail in its purpose. But like the real 300, it does. At first glance it has the look of an expensive epic. Yet, despite the presence of Richard Egan and Sir Ralph Richardson and an assortment of usually proficient actors, it's a lacklustre enterprise, ranging from the wooden to the excessively theatrical, an unintentional parody of history. In a film this bad, being bumped off early on must have been a relief. The theme music redeems the effort in part, for one star.