Mar. 13, 2014

300 Rise Of An Empire 3D version *****

Directed by Noam Murro , and Produced by Zack Snyder ,  Based on the Novel Xerxes written by Frank Miller , this film is a sequel to the movie 300 made in 2007 , this second film takes place before during and after the time of  the first movie , The Cast Includes : Lena Heady as   Queen Gorgo , Yigal Naor as King Darius I of Persia , as well as Sullivan Stapleton who portrays General Themistocles and Rodrigo Santoro playing Xerxes the King's son , also Eva Green as the navel Commander Artemisia , it is she who after the  slaying of the Persian King convinces  the young prince Xerxes to first go wander the dessert , while she disposes of any who might have counsled the now King Xerxes against the war,  it  is also she who tries to seduce Themistocles and  after failing in that , then leads him into a burning trap of  ships , thinking Themistocles now dead , returns to Xerxes , she thinks in triamph , while Thermistocles has managed to   survive her trap , he then heads to Sparta to inlist the infamous 300 pleading to Queen Gorgo how there must be a united Greece to defeat the invading Persians , but after she in turn commits her 300 and they are slain , she then tells Themistocles that she is done and will send no more men or boys to meet their death , they had   been betrayed by a hunchback, knowing who he is the Queen and Themistocles tell the hunchback , go back to your master and tell him this is not over, he thinks me dead, but I shall see him turned out of Greece , when word of this gets back to Artemisia she runs off to lay waste to Athens , which is where Themistocles and what few ships he has left having heard the news of the slain 300 and thinking no more help is coming   decides to take on the Persian's Greek Born Navel Commander, as the battle rages and the enemy think they have it in the bag,  over the horizon come a fleet of fresh Spartan ships, and as Artemisia is  slain by Themistocles , on a nearby cliff edge Xerxes makes a cowerdly withdrawl.

of  late the 3D films I have seen , some bits have worked, others not , but in 300 Rise Of An Empire , the 3D is spot  on , there  is much slashing and spurting of blood , if  you like that sort of thing  , then this is a Must See , I myself found it a very good film with a story fictionalized , but based on the True battle of Salamis , very few such movies are based in historical fact

I rate this film a definate must see