It is a performances centric movie

Highly Overrated But Still Good

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This movie is awesome. End of story. It's got everything you'd want from 300 and more. The naval warfare aspect was sweet and refreshing. This sequel does a fantastic job with cinematic continuity. Almost feels like Snyder made it himself. Well done to Murro on the direction and execution. An enjoayable sequel and a fun time at the movies!

The original 300 was admittedly not a movie worth mentioning, and thus my expectations were pretty low going in to see this sequel. However, that masculinity that was so admirable was gone from the sequel, and instead we get a kind of SJW motion picture in which the men are wimps and the females the 'tough guys', resulting in one of the most ridiculous feminist pieces of propaganda ever created.Ofcourse since the sequel is made in a more modern era of 'Toxic masculinity' and 'Strong female characters', the character or Artemisia ( Eva Green ) & the drastic character change of Queen Gorgo ( Lena Headey, who is also now seemingly superhuman in fighting abilities, which is something that is quite out of character for her after the original film ) were made purely to please the SJW crowd. That masculinity of the original is gone and instead every male character in the movie is a pawn that is being used by both women characters. The ridiculous shots of the sixpack abs are still there, but for some reason all these seemingly 'Manly men' are ridiculed and executed by Artemisia even though she stands a couple of feet below most of them in height, and barely weighs anything. Furthermore, her command with all the males blindly obeying her in genuine fear of her is utterly ridiculous. Why would these men fear this puny woman, it makes little sense. Eva Green is not really to blame for this, as it isn't her fault, but her role simply isn't written for a female. All the male characters are utterly useless, and this basically results in a disgusting anti-male garbage piece of feminism propaganda. Combine this with Gorgo who uses all of Sparta and its gullible and weak willed males to avenge her dead husband, and what we have here is a picture that confuses its genders in a ridiculous manner.Gerard Butler might have been miscast in the original, but there is no doubt that after witnessing Themistokles ( Sullivan Stapleton ) in the lead that this picture basically screams for his return. Stapleton has very little emotional range, and his character is a complete pushover. ( Take the 'rape' scene with Artemisia for example, what a ridiculous bunch of nonsensical women empowerment propaganda that was once again ) The 'manly' mannerisms of Leonidas are gone, and this picture sorely misses his presence, since Themistokles is barely even a presence. There is very little useful dialogue, and once again no sub text or a clear moral message, purely blind feminist entertainment. The action scenes are absolutely horrendously bad, as most of the blood coming from victims literally look even worse than in the original, with the blood looking like fake plastic with a red dye. Many of the action scenes seem like complete CGI, and not very good CGI either. The result is it looks like some kind of brainless videogame created in 1998. The grainy and colorless cinematography of the original returns, except since the sequel is mostly at sea, it is even darker than the original, which results in even few colors. The sea battles are filmed under overly artificial backdrops and lighting once again and never in these scenes do you get the idea that this world feels like it is real. Music is extremely out of place most of the time and doesn't fit in with the kind of picture this is supposed to be. Like in 300, the fighting scenes also focus solely on the main character in question, and never show what enemies are doing, because all that it is interested in is showing what a great bunch of moves the characters in question have ( Mainly Themistokles, who was a gigantic wimp, but somehow fights like a madman ). This means the fighting is only there for the sake of showing some fine choreography because we do not actually see what happens to most of the enemies ( Should take some notes from Seven Samurai (1954) on how to create MEANINGFUL fighting scenes, as every hit of the main character is followed by a cut of an enemy hitting the ground, instead of just focusing on useless choreography of a single character. )Ultimately 300: Rise of an Empire is once again a pointless movie, with nothing relevant to say, except to further shove feminism down the viewers throat, as if that wasn't happening enough already these days.

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!!

I have come to the conclusion by reading a lot of so called reviews that the reviewers havent a clue,or did they even watch the film or maybe its the vogue to slag an action/new film off these days, the question should be asked why bother going to see a film if you are going to bad mouth it before you have even seen it, just stay at home next time and writing rubbish