mrscrispy The real let down in this film is the full weak male leads.. wimp ass boring men. Poor Artemisia no wonder she wanted to wipe them out, yes, overacted & melodramatic, but dead sexy sword wealding, bow shooting chick leading an ancient Persian armada with a rock'n wardrobe - she must have been SOOO pissed off she didn't get to play with Leonidous (Gerald Butler) instead!!

cinemajesty Movie Review: "300: Rise Of An Empire" (2013)As all wars begin with a mortification of dying father's son, Xerxes, reprising actor Rodrigo Santoro, sends his deadliest instrument in shape of forged by rape, abuse, tortured then trained-in-swordsmanship character of Artemisia, viciously portrayed by actress Eve Green, to take on the remaining splintered clans of the Greeks after the fall of Leonidas' "300" (2006) directed by Zack Synder, who had been indisposed for this production due to his non-stop involvements into the DC universe since 2011. His substitute director has become Noam Murro, who presents no signature of his own, even if the screenplay also written by Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad gives plenty of opportunity to exceed the phenomenal original "300" based on Frank Miller's graphic novel series. The 90 Minutes gamble of endurance in a wish to unite all clans Delphi, Olympus, Sparta and the others to defy the Persian Superpower, gets decide in a five minute scene in a interior Persian attack ship's cabin between the characters of Artemisia and Greek-leading Themistokles, pale and uninspiring performed by actor Sullivan Stapleton, who nevertheless had a moment to shine with actress Eva Green, when the sharpness of a man's sword translates to the sexual interaction between the two characters, when Artemisia rightfully suggests to join forces by dying every night with a tight sleep in a female's flawless anus to get awaken to life every morning by the sharpest penis as sword allegory in a matching heath of a war-mongering showdown of doubled-budgets in fire-breathing, ships crashing, even underwater sea monsters glimpsing proportions.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

geearf I am not a particular huge fan of the original 300, but I do like it for what it is. I'm afraid this is not up to par quality wise.I thought this was to be a sequel, but I was wrong, it's more in parallel of the original, with a bit of prequel and sequel around.I did appreciate seeing some of the original cast back, it was definitely nice, even though the movie is not about them (too bad!).This movie follows the previous one with its central characters, and unfortunately the comparison isn't good for it, and this is exactly my biggest issue.* Leonidas is replaced by Themistokles:I have no problem with Stapleton, he seems a great actor, but unfortunately his character is far less interesting. He's pretty much a good guy that cares a lot for everyone with little humor, I found it somewhat boring to watch compared to our previous lead. I understand that it represents the difference between the Athenians and the Spartans, but it doesn't really work out for me, maybe it would have with a better co-lead.* Xerxes is replaced by Artemisia:Now this really did not work. Xerxes was awesome (in limited quantity of course) whereas Artemisia not quite. There was something about her makeup that made me wonder if she was on meth or a goth or something else that did not belong... Forgetting that, her build is not of a warrior, there is no way for her to wield a sword and a shield all day like this. Why are all the guys huge but her, the best warrior of Persia, so tiny? and yet she's the only one wielding not one sword, but 2! (yes yes I understand skills... still I'd expect more a build like Ferris Hellig, especially for a 300 main character!). Some of her scenes were fine, even if not super interesting, but I felt some of her last speeches lacked feelings).* Dillos was replaced by Aeskylos:It's not that Dillos is such an awesome character in 300, but he's good enough in most of his scenes and great in his last ones. I never felt anything good about Aeskylos, this time it's probably both the character and the actor. It's like they needed Themistokles to have some discussions so they sort of forced this guy in, but he serves no real purpose.* The father and son are replaced by... another father and son! The evolution of their relationship is interestingly opposite, as again one would expect between Spartans and Athenians and that was good, but the characters are not that interesting and the boy that needs to prove his worth to his father is not that fun that we needed it. The dad is fine, I think he should have taken over Aeskylos's role and have more screen time.* The multiple Persian armies are replaced by the Persian Navy: That too was fairly boring in comparison. In the first one you never really know what will be coming next, but here it's always the same... Well it is less insulting to Persians though since it has no demons/monsters this time :)The main characters, which is what the movie is really about, are unfortunately fairly boring. The sex scene has no purpose but itself... I could understand one of the 2 characters taking part in it, but definitely not the other A few things seem to contradict between the 2 movies as well, but nothing too major. The first battle had so much blood, they even splashed it on the camera, it was annoying.All in all, nothing to remember.

Isaac Ibarra Echegollén Honestly this was entertaining to watch and had a well mounted story, yeah it wasn't historically correct, whatever, for that matter go see a documentary, honestly i found it amusing and good not deserving of the 3/10 people are giving it, 300 was a super movie and people are putting this one in a bad spot because of the shadow of the original and that's not fair, this isn't Lalaland or some utter garbage movie like that.