Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014) by Grant S — 25 Mar 2015

Even worse than the first one.

The first 300 had potential. An historic, 5th century BC, event, told.

Using modern-day graphics. Unfortunately, it ended up being a lot less.

About history and much more about supernatural/fairytale crap (monsters.

Etc) and over-the-top repetitive violence, all in slow motion. (It's.

Not that I dislike realistic violence, it was just that it was.

Repetitive and frequent it was boring).

300: Rise of an Empire also starts with potential. Sets up some of the.

History of Athens and Persia, moves onto the background to the latest.

Conflict, including the Battle of Thermopylae (covered in the original.

300) and ends with the Battle of Salamis.

Unfortunately, it quickly falls apart. Massive historical inaccuracies.

And licence from the beginning make the plot laughable. There's less.

Fairytale monsters and similar crap this time round, though the whole.

Xerxes enters a cave as weak scrawny mortal, exits as a large, buff,.

Bikey-gang-piercings-filled god is a facepalm moment.

Graphics are great, as you would expect. However, once again the action.

Scenes get very boring, very quickly. More of the overly- frequent,.

Repetitive, over-the-top, slow-motion violence.

Dialogue is good for a laugh. Unintentionally. So many ridiculous,.

Empty grand speeches.

Weak performance by Sullivan Stapleton in the lead role. Were no known.

Actors available? Odd accent that seems to change scene by scene. I.

Know he's Australian, but his accent sounded mostly South African.

Eva Green is great in her role and is one of the reasons to watch the.

Movie. Intense, and very beautiful.

Here's hoping this is the end of the 300 series...