Thus we get a lot of battle scenes set on the gray Aegean Sea, with Themistokles and Artemisia trying to outwit each other.
#300 rise of an empire battles movie#
(The movie barely explains the odd sight of a woman leading a navy in ancient times.) How else can you explain their washboard abs and highly developed pecs?Īnyhow, this time around the evil Persian King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) sends his evil naval commander Artemisia (Eva Green) to crush the Greek resistance, which is led by the city-state Athens. Apparently the soldiers in Ancient Greece had great gyms and plenty of free time on their hands. While “Empire,” thankfully, has far less screaming than the original film, the beefcake quotient is just as high. Once we get past the recap, “Empire” tells the story of how Athenian admiral Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) stymied the vast Persian navy and saved democracy, or at least until the Roman Empire came knocking a few hundred years later. “300: Rise of An Empire” spends the first 15 minutes or so to recap the earlier film, reminding the audience of Leonidas and his 300 soldiers brave stand against the might of the Persian army at Thermopylae. You wanted to walk up to Butler’s King Leonidas, tap him on the shoulder and ask him to please pipe down, for the love of Zeus. That’s the best thing about “300: Rise of an Empire,” the bloody followup to the 2006 hit “300,” about a bunch of scantily clad, buffed, oiled and tweezered Spartans killing a whole bunch of Persians in Ancient Greece.īesides all the shots of the dudes in short shorts showing off their abs - and really “300” looked like the cast was culled from guys attending Toga Night at a West Hollywood night club - the 2006 film is best remembered for star Gerard Butler incessantly screaming.
#300 rise of an empire battles full#
At least the sequel isn’t full of Spartans screaming at each other for two hours.
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