Based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel that recounts the battle of Thermopylaeand brought to the big screen, this time round by American director ZackSnyder, 300 may not turn out the way it’s all hyped up to be. 

If there is any movie this year that will split audiences equally between the politically-correct crowd and the rabid fanboys, 300 is it. At the recently-concluded 57th Berlin International Film Festival, critics and journalists booed the film at a press screening, there was applause amidst the jeering.