300: Rise of an Empire 3D
The wheel doesn’t need reinventing, of course, and nearly a decade after the first 300 film, the follow-up takes that advice. Although the story has some novelty to it (kind of a sequel, kind of a contemporary of the original), the nuts and bolts of it are unchanged. It’s a green-screen epic, with action sequences largely indistinguishable from its predecessor. The one real strength 300: Rise of an Empire can offer is Eva Green as the sinister Artemisia, a legendary Persian naval commander from a couple of thousand years ago. She’s also a villain you wouldn’t mind winning a little bit, because she’s every bit a badass. Made purely for fans of the first film, Rise of an Empire doesn’t break any new ground and adds only a sliver in terms of the story. But by and large, that’s passable.
By Colin Boyd
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Credits
Director:
- Noam Murro
Cast:
- Sullivan Stapleton
- Eva Green
- Lena Headey
- Hans Matheson
- Callan Mulvey
- David Wenham
- Rodrigo Santoro
- Jack O'Connell
- Andrew Tiernan
- Igal Naor
- Andrew Pleavin
- Peter Mensah
- Ben Turner
- Ashraf Barhom
- Christopher Sciueref
Producers:
- Gianni Nunnari
- Mark Canton
- Zack Snyder
- Deborah Snyder
- Bernie Goldmann
- Thomas Tull
- Frank Miller
- Stephen Jones
- Jon Jashni
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