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By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 17 Apr 2014

300: Rise Of An Empire is a worthy sequel to 300, stylistically consistent and equally loony, featuring what may well be the first truly can't-miss…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 25 Mar 2014

It's a big-budget helping of fanboy eye candy in which the action scenes are meant to be so dazzling that you ignore that it doesn't make much…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 24 Mar 2014

As Persia's sexiest naval commander, Eva Green is to this 'sidequel' as Cate Blanchett is to 'Blue Jasmine,' and I mean that as a compliment…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Bryant Frazer (316) for Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (294) on 14 Mar 2014

More than any other element, Eva Green's performance singlehandedly elevates the film from the doldrums of its hermetic conception and execution…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Hilary A White (243) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 13 Mar 2014

It doesn't need to strut about waiting for a climax as 300 did, and punctuates its set pieces with stage-setting intrigues that keep it motoring…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By David Stratton (799) for At the Movies (Australia) (716) on 12 Mar 2014

[The story] gets constantly literally swamped by the blood and gore and so forth, which is well done but almost to the point of parody…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Margaret Pomeranz (380) for At the Movies (Australia) (716) on 12 Mar 2014

Sullivan Stapleton in his first lead role after Animal Kingdom is actually quite impressive…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Mike Mcgranaghan (1,821) for Aisle Seat (1,783) on 12 Mar 2014

Seems perfectly content to be a retread of the original, visually and stylistically…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 12 Mar 2014

It's all breathless in the sense that every cast member sucks in his or her gut, chest puffed out, posing rigidly, half-naked, like Crossfit…

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By Larushka Ivan-Zadeh (441) for Metro (UK) (700) on 10 Mar 2014

The big box-tick here is that it is the women who ultimately command the impressively surging CGI hordes on both sides…

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By Richard Corliss (1,032) for Time (1,811) on 10 Mar 2014

For all the energetic milling, Rise of an Empire proves superior to its predecessor by making war a game both sexes can play, on nearly equal…

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By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 10 Mar 2014

Despite hyperbolic acting, this is a dull-witted combination of ancient Greece and modern CGI - and the 3D element means that everyone bleeds…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 09 Mar 2014

The mere existence of 300: Rise of an Empire is worthy of note, especially the inventive means by which the story has been advanced…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 09 Mar 2014

Considering the level of carnage, it's astonishing how dreary it all manages to be, with computer-game visuals and Carry On dialogue conspiring…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 09 Mar 2014

Filled with excessive amounts of blood splattering in slow motion, it's a stylized action fantasy, revolving around naval battles, and brimming…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Ed Whitfield (493) for The Ooh Tray (482) on 09 Mar 2014

Uncomplicated fare for those who yearn for a time when men were prisoners of their masculinity and expected to kill as a consequence and women…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Tom Glasson (221) for Concrete Playground (635) on 08 Mar 2014

A mostly-forgettable pantomime of blood, gore and sculpted abs…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Houston Press (294) on 08 Mar 2014

I'm glad to see Eva Green was able to secure her usual contractual codicils for raccoon eye makeup and at least 30 seconds of bared breasts…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 08 Mar 2014

The gore appears storyboarded to death, with much of the bloodletting presented in studied slow motion…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Andy Lea (545) for Daily Star (403) on 08 Mar 2014

The battles are thrillingly staged and delightfully over-the-top but this movie belongs to Green who puts in a wonderfully nutty turn as unhinged…

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