yes, eva green shows her boobies

WELL IT'S SETTLED THEN

also it's fucking awful

Did you like 300?

nope. and this is even worse. it essentially gets rid of the only thing the first one had going for it.

Well I, and a lot of others, loved 300. So... I'm sure this is decent entertainment.

Also, BOOBIES.

Ridiculously enough, I had to sign an NDA until March 5th...

oh i'm sure you'll love it

I think the way you perceive the second film hinges entirely upon what you thought of the first.

PECCIES

For Magnus (and myself)

It's alright. The sex scene, that is.

I liked the film, but then again, I liked the first too. This is really more of the same. The hero is worse than Gerard Butler's Leonidas, but the villain is of course much better here.

Pretty everyone is praising Green's performance. Could see a WOKJ MPA nomination.

Yes, from the reviews I've read, she dominates her screentime.

Eva Green wins the movie. Flawless victory.

She's so good I'm kind of upset that I was supposed to be cheering against her. I spent the whole finale hoping she'd switch sides so I wouldn't have to see her die.

Just buy The Dreamers DVD and put it on an infinite loop. Not only tits involved, but also bush.

I was cheering for her anyway, so what. :-D

As it became a surprise global mega-hit, 300 must have given at least one studio executive a headache: can a film in which almost every principal character is dead by the final frame still result in an ongoing franchise? (Similar questions arose regarding Gladiator and The Departed, among others.) Anyone with at least a modest knowledge of Herodotus' history, however, knows the deaths of Leonidas and his Spartans is part of a grander story. So, several years later, we have 300: Rise of an Empire, an ultra-violent, high-style depiction of the sea warfare which pit the heroes of Greece against a much larger Persian fleet.

On the surface, this is not an awful film: in regard to both aesthetic and tone, it fits alongside the prior film. The frame is populated with almost nothing but musclebound male beauties, even though it is said Greece's central force consists, in the nation's desperation, of farmers, townspeople, and unprepared youths. (This dialogue lands with an extra loud thud when contrasted with the chiseled soldiers on display as it is said.) Every death is punctuated by a slow-motion geyser of computer-generated blood. The dialogue, often shouted by the characters, is defined by broad graphic-novel notions of masculinity and nobility. Yet where I found the original 300 amusing and even hypnotic, 300: Rise of the Empire is dull and exhausting. Why? It is hard to say. Perhaps because so many largely inferior films have utilized the same stylistic tics in the intervening period, rendering the cinematic combat here rote rather than inventive, and perhaps also because the storyline is not as engaging and focused as the 300 Spartans' doomed final stand nor is the Gerard Butler stand-in, studly Australian actor Sullivan Stapleton as Athenian general Themistocles, as overheated and iconic (he cannot brood his way to a moment of wonderful absurdity on par with "THIS. IS. SPARTA!").

The one element which does elevate Rise of the Empire, if not save it: Eva Green, who is an electrifying presence as a sexy and volatile version of Persia's sole female naval commander, Artemisia, portrayed here as a slave girl who rises to power under Darius the Great and later Xerxes through betrayal, murder, and general wit. The gifted and gorgeous Green, who should be a top-of-the-A-list star by now, has received praise even in mixed and negative reviews, and it is not hard to understand why: she rips into the role and devours it without hesitation, exuding convincing lust and rage at every turn and easily (I repeat, easily) outshining the storyline around her and its other players. If only she were in every scene; alas, this film does not realize it is a one-woman show.

C-

The consensual rape was entertaining. Otherwise boring. Broad agreement with David's post.

As a big fan of the original I thought this was a solid follow-up to say the least. Nothing amazing, but I was entertained for the most part. It can't touch the original, but I still found it hell of a lot better then the other crappy 300 wannabes over the past few years.

Also, Eva Green has never shined as much in a role as she does here. Badass and sexy all at the same time and by the later half of the movie you will definitely feel like rooting for her character to win.

BJs Grade:

B/B+

Green was fuckin badass.

was so weird seeing that dude from Skins in here, along with the fact that he was the only who wasn't "ripped".

The movie has some cool connections with the first flick but it's not very compelling. Not completely terrible but not memorable at all.

Unless Butler somehow turned it down, Leonidas not being in this is stupid... when you're a graphic novel movie like 300, getting around death is so easy... Just introduce a necromancer warlock or make him lead the army as a ghost. This movie with Leonidas is a much bigger event

That's retarded.