 Since its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 14 , 2007 , in front of 1 @,@ 700 audience members , 300 has received generally mixed reviews . While it received a standing ovation at the public premiere , it was panned at a press screening hours earlier , where many attendees left during the showing and those who remained booed at the end . Critics are divided on the film . Rotten Tomatoes reports that 60 % of critics gave the film a positive review , based upon a sample of 225 , with an average score of 6 @.@ 1 out of 10 . Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics , gave the film an average score of 52 based on 42 reviews . 
