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By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 06 Mar 2014

Noam Murro takes the helm this time around, having proven his slow-motion 3-D action chops on... indie drama Smart People…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Nell Minow (2,357) for Beliefnet (937) on 06 Mar 2014

The only thing that stands out from the carnage is Green, whose Artemisia is one of the most outright cray-cray villains since Cruella De Vil…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 06 Mar 2014

The title 300: Rise of an Empire takes on a whole new meaning when this bombastically stylized ancient Greece live-action cartoon comes to…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 06 Mar 2014

So copious is the spilling of blood, and so lovingly does the camera watch it, that director Noam Murro veers uncomfortably close to fetishism…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for New York Times (5,786) on 06 Mar 2014

The naval collisions and melees play out in panel-like renderings that are bold and satisfying for the first half-hour but lack the momentum…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 Mar 2014

While very much a “hard R” movie, Rise of an Empire is, nevertheless, the perfect sort of film for rainy weekend afternoons…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Orange County Register (218) on 06 Mar 2014

Murro may believe that he's directed an anti-fascist movie, but what he's really made is almost as coercive as fascist melodrama…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 06 Mar 2014

Yep, it might have taken seven years, but the 300 franchise has returned with more hysterically historical butchery for your entertainment pleasure…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 06 Mar 2014

The spectacularly brutal fighting is the film's main calling card, and in that Rise of an Empire doesn't disappoint…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 06 Mar 2014

Basically, if the first “300” was a pep-talk from Coach on how to lose with dignity, Rise of an Empire is an inspirational speech on the…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 06 Mar 2014

It really is pretty dull, though, with the same moments of campy silliness: the same frowning gym bunnies with the same digitally enhanced abs…

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By Drew Hunt (128) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Mar 2014

The slow-motion battle scenes are technically impressive and occasionally elegant, but there's enough machismo here to choke a thousand NFL…

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By Rick Bentley (466) for Fresno Bee (603) on 06 Mar 2014

With the newness gone, all of the bloody battles in Rise of an Empire come across as gratuitous and boring…

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By Dominic Corry (151) for Flicks.co.nz (982) on 06 Mar 2014

The bold and bloody visual style remains reasonably compelling and the seafaring battle sequences mark the film apart from the original…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 06 Mar 2014

When the film isn’t sloppily directed, it’s a series of lazy filmmaking tics, including fetishistic slow-motion shots of blood, water and…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Graham Killeen (120) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 06 Mar 2014

Eva Green shows up as the film's best visual effect, transposing a one-note henchwoman into a symphony of glowers, glares, gnashing teeth and…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Michael Sauter (58) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 06 Mar 2014

Marching to the same beat as its predecessor, this belated follow-up delivers even more visual excess and brain-deadening bloodshed…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Tom Meek (408) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 06 Mar 2014

As far as history goes, and the box office dictates, there's plenty of room for a sequel. The ending almost commands it…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 06 Mar 2014

300: Rise of an Empire plays like a collaboration between the Marquis de Sade and Michael Bay. Or maybe the History Channel and the Saw franchise…

Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Jason Gorber (520) for ScreenAnarchy (469) on 06 Mar 2014

This isn't a film for purists, nor is it a film for those who delve into Herodotus in their spare time…

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